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Northeastern freshman Garrett Vermeersch wound up for a hard slapshot from the blue line that was deflected in by junior Wade MacLeod. Kyle Kraemer had the secondary assist...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Beanpot Blowout Provides Harvard Little Consolation | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

...time in its history. One result is that the party, which has a strong Stalinist tradition, has itself split into pro-Moscow and pro-Czechoslovak factions. After bitter quarrels over policy, the symbolic leader of the hard-line faction last week quit the party. She is Madame Jeannette Thorez-Vermeersch, the 58-year-old widow of the party's longtime leader, Maurice Thorez, sometimes known in party circles as "the Hag" because of her terrible temper. At the same time, the party, which is led by Secretary General Waldeck Rochet, who in recent years has become a moderate, both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: COMMUNISM: A WORLD DIVIDED | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

...casket as he lay in state first in the hôtel de ville at Ivry, which he had represented in the National Assembly on and off for 32 years, later in central Paris at the party headquarters, which had been draped entirely in black. Receiving condolences, Jeannette Vermeersch, Thorez' widow and Communist coworker, stood stoically for hours at the bier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Turnout for Maurice | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

Search for Support. This has drawn many French and other Western European comrades toward Togliatti's way of doing things, has precipitated a significant split between the French and Italian parties. Always sensitive to Maurice's concerns, his formidable wife Jeannette Vermeersch, a party veteran of 35 years, rose at last week's Paris Congress to denounce the pro-Italian faction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The Decline of Maurice | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

Male Wall. The only people paying attention to the bitter Chinese complaints were a group of Western newsmen. The sight of outsiders overhearing the family quarrel brought fiery Jeannette Vermeersch to her feet and, pointing an accusing finger, she cried to the Chinese delegates: "You are talking in front of the imperialist press-and yet you say that you are fighting imperialism!" Strong-armed Russian males formed a human wall between the reporters and the Chinese as the exasperated chairman adjourned the meeting. The role of peacemaker fell to Guinea's Jeanne Martin, president of the Pan-African Women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Women's Club (Marxist Model) | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

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