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...Edouard Herriot was President of the Chamber of Deputies. The men of Vichy had no use for the man of Lyon. He retired to his hilltop house in the upper Rhone Valley. In 1942's summer a visitor, Rightest Deputy C.J. Fernand-Laurent found him there, dressed in sweater and cap, smoking his pipe, culling mushrooms in his garden, sighing gently over a thin rabbit stew and the last of his wine. One thing made Edouard Herriot openly indignant: Vichy had sent a policeman to take note of his visitors, remarks, gestures-"even in the bathroom. . . . Now, wasn...
...girl wears a sweater...
...Yale Sweater. He had four weeks before sailing. He went back to Yale, sweated for two days over the structure of the Chinese language, got it down to ele ments that could be written on a small sheet of paper. Next Hockett listened to two Chinese civilian assistants, Fang and Chew Hong, talk Chinese for three and a half weeks. The simplest and clearest remarks were cut on wax. Then Hockett, Fang, Hong and the officers sailed for China with lesson books, a few records, some hand-wind phonographs...
...Annapolis-educated Lewis Brereton: to umbrella the invasion. Made Companion of the Order of the Bath last November, the General still wears baggy pants and an old sweater under his flying suit. His old habit of turning up unexpectedly at his medium-bomber and fighter stations has a new twist: now he leaves a trail of red printed placards which read "Keep Mobile-Brereton...
...heaped together as they fell. Some had been officers, some privates; all wore faded blue-grey uniforms and tarnished brass buttons with the Polish eagle still recognizable. Dr. Prozorovsky wore a white smock, an orange apron and red rubber gloves. Kathy had on a plaid skirt, an orange pullover sweater and garnet nail polish...