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...great respect, Giraud differed from Pétain: Giraud hated Germans long before they raped France, and he is forever exhorting his troops to kill Germans. And, like all good Frenchmen of whatever political stripe, he loves France. While in a Nazi prison, he laid down his hope for la patrie in a letter to his seven children...
...Grillon, Mexico City's ultra-posh nightclub, 300 poets and writers of every political stripe gathered to meet Manuel Avila Camacho over absinthe cocktails, lobster a la Newburg and a succulent melee of chicken, turkey and duck washed down with rare wines. Mexico's querulous intellectuals were being reconciled; the bile of the inkpot was being washed away in the blood of the vine. At the same time they were making the acquaintance, firsthand, of the President who, succeeding to the far-Left regime of Lazaro Cardenas, had led Mexico back to the middle of the road...
...Laval could rally the French to fight Allied troops was a problem for the oily little lawyer to figure out for himself. Last week Jacques Doriot, another collaborator of Laval's soiled stripe, got clubbed in Paris. Near Lyon, 5,000 peasants and townspeople gathered for the funeral of British aviators who crashed returning from Italy...
Zoot suitists deprived of drape shapes, reet pleats and stuff cuffs by WPB edict have a new decorative theme with which to express themselves in San Francisco and Oakland. War-working jalopy jerks find love stripes, painted diagonally across the doors of their hot irons,† the quickest way to let hep twists know what kind of wolf is giving them a gander. One stripe indicates single male on the scout. Two stripes-going steady but still stuff seeking. Three stripes-practically engaged, looking for no pickups. Four stripes-in the saddle, all soaped up, or married...
...other contest of the afternoon saw last-place Lowell win its second game of the year, displaying huge amounts of defensive power to a bewildered Adams team that never once crossed the midfield stripe. Bellboy right guard Charley Gardner provided the margin of victory for the cellar team, when in the second period he stole the ball from Gold Coaster Pat Culliton and romped 30 yards for the game's only score. FINAL HOUSE STANDINGS Team Won Lost Tied Pts. Leverett 5 1 1 11 Dunster 3 0 4 10 Winthrop 4 2 1 9 Eliot...