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Behind Un Homme is a very real character: Claude-Henri Grignon, 52-year-old writer-producer. When he drops his pen, he becomes the quarrelsome mayor of Ste. Adele, in the Laurentians north of Montreal. There he bosses his 1,200 constituents, fights resort hotel owners for more taxes, butts his head against the steady advance of tourist commercialism which he fears will destroy Ste. Adele's joie de vivre. No one in the Laurentians hates city life more than Claude-Henri. For 15 years he was a failure in Montreal, writing acid critiques and a bad book. Then...
...guarded the New World for France, still frowned down on the narrow twisting streets of the Old Town. The habitant women in their dusty-black Sunday clothes still knelt to pray in ancient Chapelle des Augustines. With devout Americans they still trudged the 21 miles to the shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupre on pilgrimage...
Some 14,000 members of the C.I.O. United Steelworkers Union started to walk out of Canada's three basic steel plants (Dominion Steel & Coal at Sydney, N.S., Steel Co. of Canada at Hamilton, Ont., Algoma Steel at Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.) which supply about 80% of Canada's steel. Although the number of steelworkers was comparatively small, if they stayed out long enough they would ultimately force a serious coke shortage and the laying off of 423,000 other Canadians dependent on steel for their jobs. (Some 36,000 workers were still on strike in rubber, electric works...
...Theodore Roosevelt Jr. declared that she wished the remains of her husband (Quentin's brother) to lie at Ste. Mère-Eglise in Normandy. Said Mrs. George S. Patton: "I feel soldiers should stay where they fall. . . . General Patton . . . would always have wanted to have been buried with his men." Mrs. Simon Bolivar Buckner, whose husband was killed in action at Okinawa, expressed the same thought. So did Mrs. Clara Jane Hawkins, mother of the Marine lieutenant for whom Tarawa's airfield is named, and the young widow of another Marine hero, Sergeant John Basilone who died...
...written the life story of La Piaf. Two policemen assisted at her birth in a Montmartre street 30 years ago. When she was two and a half, she was struck blind-according to her. She was cured, at seven, when she and her grandmother visited the Normandy shrine of Ste. Thérèse de 1'Enfant Jésus. As a young girl she sang in the Paris streets, a tiny, birdlike creature who clasped her hands behind her and fixed her eyes on the heavens. A friend gathered up the sous which she was too proud...