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...double-breasted grey suit. Eugene Donnelly wore a silk hat. Frank Spina, Harry Truman's Kansas City barber, had a new silk guidon, three times regulation size, inscribed in gold with the names of the places where Battery D had fought: the Vosges Mountains, the Meuse-Argonne, Verdun. Four sleeping cars rolled eastward...
...tops in Canadian circles and who is a definite prospect for the Boston Bruins. The rest of the Canadian University's squad-biography list reads like a pro and semi-pro roster, with such descriptions as "spent three years with the Boston Olympics" and "played also for the Verdun Maple Leafs" scattered throughout...
Marshal Henri Pétain of Verdun and Vichy, now serving a life term for collaborating with the Nazis, was reported looking poorly. But when a Chamber of Deputies committee tried to question the old soldier about his War II activities, he got his back up. "I know nothing," he gruffed. "I am 92 years old. If you want to question me on the war of 1914-18, I can answer you. I won that...
Colgate Darden's own student days at Virginia were interrupted by World War I. In 1916-17 he was an ambulance driver with the French Army at Verdun and the Argonne. When the U.S. entered the war, Darden switched to the Navy and then the Marines, injured his back in a plane crash. He returned to Charlottesville to finish up, took a law degree at Columbia, went on to Oxford. Now 50, for 22 years he was a faithful member of the Byrd political machine, was elected four times to Congress, once to the governorship. Although Darden doesn...
Many of the individual chapters are subtly, brilliantly managed; here & there (as in Vol. VIII, entitled Verdun) they blend into a more or less related whole. But ordinarily Author Romains moves his characters about by whim or wind, endows his chance encounters, political musings, philosophic sermons, fancy seductions with no more apparent interrelation than that of news stories in the daily press...