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Last week Eudeline went back to the presidential palace to receive his reward. On Eudeline's chest, President Vincent Auriol pinned the white-enamel-and-silver cross of a chevalier of the Legion of Honor, founded in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte to honor those who, "by their knowledge, their virtues, their talent," have upheld the principles of the French Republic. He will be entitled to wear the inconspicuous red lapel ribbon, and will find special seats reserved for him at parades and other functions-joining the democratic company of the 196,146 Frenchmen who also have the Legion...
...investigation is believed to be in its early stages, and no arrests are expected to be made for some time. Assistant District Attorney Vincent A. G. O'Connor last week said that the current basketball scandal is expected to grow even larger, and this will probably keep the D.A.'s office busy for at least a month...
...last days of World War II and the years that followed, a handful of selfless men within the Government fought a long, grueling battle to save the nation while the nation slept. The most important of these was James Vincent Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, and in 1947, the Secretary of Defense. Not until Forrestal jumped to his death from the 16th floor of the Bethesda Naval Hospital, in May 1949, did the world catch a hint of how exhausting the battle had been...
During the summer Donald L. M. Blackmer '52 married and since he is no longer a resident and representative of Lowell House he resigned. Sandler announced that Vincent P. McCarthy '52 will take his place. McCarthy was runner-up to Blackmer in the election last November...
...Privileged Class"; he is piqued that there are people who have been accused of communist sympathies (by such sources as Louis Budenz and "Red Channels") but have not been struck by "the lightning of society's wrath." He shows a picture of the State Department's John Carter Vincent, and underneath runs the stinging indictment: "From China to Switzerland to North Africa." At the top of another page is a string of photos labeled "Dear to the Hearts of Left-wingers are these controversial figures." Here we find composer Aaron Copland, "recently appointed to a choice chair at Harvard...