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Died. Maurice Bokanowski, 49, French Minister of Commerce and Aviation; in an airplane crash; near Toul, France (see page...
...camps overseas, by sending to our soldiers the atrical entertainment from home. In company with Mr. E. B. Sothern, the Shakesperean actor, I spent three months surveying the varied conditions. We visited at least 50 of The American encampments, and spent one night under artillery fire at Toul, which was then our front...
...Philadelphia has presented five flags to the Widener Library in memory of his son, P. B. Kurtz '16. Lieutenant Kurtz, who had been awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French government, was a member of the aviation force of the French army. He was killed in action near Toul, May 22, 1918. Kurtz was a friend of Harry Elkins Widener '07, in memory of whom the Widener Library is named...
...most graphic pictorial record of the Yankee in France that we remember to have seen. It is of slight importance that, in such drawings as "Home" and "Her Boy Too", we can trace plainly the Style of Poulbot: or that the wash drawings entitled, "The Gardener's Cottage", "Toul Sector Days", and "The Town of Cuffles", remind us forcibly of Bruce Bairnsfather. The fact is that, missing alike the delicate expressiveness of the French draughtsman and the whimsicality of the Britisher, Mr. Baldridge strikes a note of sureness, of Yankee ruggedness and good humor, which neither the former...
...Naturally, I was more acquainted with the men in the higher commands of the 26th Division. Many were Harvard men. Brig. Gen. Sherman was one of them. He went across as a Colonel, was then promoted to the command of the Brigade Artillery of the 92nd Division, fought at Toul and Verdun, and, after the armistice was signed, was transferred to the 26th Division. He was one of three National Guard Colonel's to be promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General during the war. Then there is Col. Richard K. Hale '02, now Chief of Staff of the Yankee...