Word: soldiers
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Died. General Henri Honoré Giraud, 70, French hero of three wars (he was cited for bravery 13 times, decorated 16 times); of intestinal cancer and pernicious anemia; in Dijon, France. Lean, towering (6 ft. 4 in.) Soldier Giraud, who escaped from the Germans in World War I with the help of Nurse Edith Cavell, was captured again by the Germans in World War II, during the Sedan breakthrough. He escaped again, made his way with Allied help to Gibraltar - and frustration. He had been picked by the Allies to command French forces in Africa after the invasion...
...Braggart Soldier" and his declining, but conjugating puella will try to deceive each other this spring in the first Latin play in the College since...
...Bedford County (Pa.) authorities granted a group of citizens permission to exhume the body of World War II Veteran Reuben Rock. The soldier's body was dug up and stripped of its uniform, which was sprinkled with gasoline and burned. Then the body was dusted with salt, wrapped in a white sheet and gently reburied. Relatives announced that this was the only means of breaking a "hex" which he had cast on his widow, 22-year-old Mrs. Rosella Rock...
Pravda worked out one of its fine diplomatic distinctions. It called Old Soldier Walter Bedell Smith, U.S. ambassador to Moscow, a "professional spy." On the other hand, ECAmbassador W. Averell Harriman, who once had Smith's job, was merely a "spy by avocation...
...film deals with the citizens' chase after the robbers for the subsidy money in an attempt to save their first post-war crop. The theme of the film is the plight of the unemployed veteran in a defeated, starving, and bankrupt country, and the ease of transition from soldier to gangster when the will-to-live exceeds respect for law and the rights of others. The theme itself is very effectively handled...