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...academician's customarily ornate sword, they were swamped by almost 2,000 contributors-including five cardinals, twelve foreign ambassadors, former Premier Pierre Mendès-France, Movie Actress Claude Nollier, Dressmaker Pierre Balmain, the entire staff of the women's magazine, Marie-Claire, and a boy scout troop...
...three American flags out of his Fifth Avenue window and awaited the sheriff. He died broke at 95, with little but his medals and a fame that already belonged to another age. He may not have been the ideal leader of a boys' club or the neighborhood Cub troop, but he was a mean man in the clinches and never dull...
...brutal story of treachery unfolded at the trial. Strasserra was an authentic hero of the resistance, with an unimpeachably anti-Fascist record. Trained by the OSS at Bari, he and an aide were slipped into Genoa in mid-1944 to report German troop movements and to establish liaison with resistance groups. When he lost his radio in a Gestapo raid, he and his companion lit out for the hills. He found Devil Moranino, and assuming him to be a fellow patriot and partisan, asked Moranino to get him to Switzerland, where he would be able to re-establish contact with...
...stream, McKeon had to lead his men across a 100 ft. border of deep black mud carpeted by yard-high swamp grass. He did not hesitate, although he later admitted that he had "never been in the area before," a tragic lapse from the basic rule that a troop leader must know his ground. Behind McKeon, the recruits sank deep in the mud, slipping and sliding and clutching each other for support...
Hazy but Hopeful. Confronted with these limited proposals, the U.S.S.R. could not sit idle without suffering a considerable propaganda defeat. The day after Stassen made his call for an exchange of troop movement data. Soviet Delegate Andrei Gromyko unveiled a brand-new Soviet disarmament plan. Its main features...