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...opportunities to prove their worth by serving the totalitarian State. The only "right" accorded impartially to all Frenchmen would be to work. Liberty, Pétain told his countrymen, had not existed in France for 20 years. "Besides, what would abstract liberty be worth in 1940 to an unemployed workman or the proprietor of a small ruined business beyond freedom to suffer without redress in the midst of a vanquished nation...
François is a happy workman on a sanding machine when he meets Françoise (Jacqueline Laurent) on their saint's day. Pursuing elusive young Françoise he meets worldly-wise Clara (Arletty). Over both women has been cast the dark and fascinating spell of Valentin (Jules Berry), an aging dog trainer who loves to tell lies and make simple people unhappy. When François climbs to his garret for the last time, Valentin has accomplished his masterpiece...
...remind 100,000 Englishmen, gathered at Aintree last week, that they were at war. Around babbling bookmakers they swarmed, slapping down shillings on the favorites: H. C. McNally's Royal Danieli (who finished just astern of Battleship two years ago), Scott Briggs's MacMoffat (runnerup to Workman last year), Dorothy Paget's Kilstar (third-place horse a year...
Walter R. MacLaren received the Edward Hickling Bradford fellowship; Samuel Lewis '35, the John White Browne fellowship; Paul C. Zamecnik '36, the William O. Moseley Jr. travelling fellowship; Sinclair H. Armstrong Jr. '37, the Jeffrey Richardson fellowship; Nathan B. Talbot, the Whitman fellowship and a Dr. William Hunter Workman fellowship; Nathaniel B. Kurnick 4M, a Dr. William Hunter Workman fellowship; and Hubert W. Smith 3M received the James Jackson Cabot fellowship...
...mile or so from the Harbert post office. On the land side the house is a triple decker, the top deck open and sunny. The front porch looks over ten miles of beach through the crests of some tall pines. Inside it is the kind of house a good workman likes to have for his family...