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Died. Berthe-Eugénie-Alphonsine Hardon Pétain, 84, stoic widow of France's Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain; after a long illness; in Paris. Married to Pétain at the height of his World War I glory as the defender of Verdun, Mme. Pétain dutifully shared his World War II ignominy as chief of the puppet Vichy regime, after his postwar sentence for treason followed him to the tiny Ile d'Yeu, where she was his only visitor during six years of solitary confinement, and upon his death in 1951 persuaded...
...Georges Boulanger, who failed to seize power only through a crucial loss of nerve in 1889. The first elected President of the Third Republic was a soldier, Marshal MacMahon; the last act of the Third Republic was to surrender its powers to another soldier, Marshal Pétain. The rebirth of France began when General de Gaulle disobeyed the Pétain government, which had made peace with the Nazis, and launched the Free French movement...
Raoul Salan fought with "remarkable courage" (according to the official citation) against the Nazis in the six-week war of 1940. The armistice with the Germans confronted him with the first of many crises of conscience: Should he support the government of Vichy's Marshal Pétain or switch to De Gaulle and the Allies? Stationed in Dakar, Salan waited four years before joining De Gaulle...
...booze, jump into the officers' club pool in pursuit of a flock of ducks. In another episode, sheep get loose on the main runway when a plane carrying the Under Secretary of War for Air is about to land. There is a private from Alabama who thinks " 'tain't fit for a grown man" to make his own bed, so his sergeant ends up making...
...Arranger Eddie Sauter). In the final, frenzied weeks before first night on Broadway, Kay must grind out not only the orchestrations for songs and dances, but the "bridges" between numbers, the entr'actes, and finally the overture, a chore Kay and associates sometimes finish scant hours before cur tain time. The job pays a top arranger anywhere from $10,000 to $16,000 a show...