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December that Minister of Education Yvon Delbos plucked it out of its pigeonhole and decided to put it into effect...
Last week, on the desolate, shell-pocked plateau outside Caen, scholars from Harvard, Yale and Smith, from Oxford, Liege, and Lausanne, and ambassadors from Belgium, Canada, and Sweden, gathered near a grandstand bedecked with flags. There France's Minister of National Education Yvon Delbos and Minister of Reconstruction Claudius Petit laid the cornerstone of the new university. Later, at a convocation in Caen's movie theater, the only large auditorium left in the city, an honorary degree was awarded to a university president who wasn't there: Columbia's Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose invasion plans...
...packs them to the rafters, Wild Bill Longson demonstrates an experienced actor's adroit timing. Wild Bill knows exactly when a kick aimed at his opponent's groin will bring down an avalanche of hearty boos. His histrionic skill earns him $1,500 an appearance. Barrel-chested Yvon Robert (rhymes with snow bear) has done so well at playing hero in his home town that he is now co-owner in a profitable sideline: a fancy Montreal nightclub called El Morocco. Gargantuan Primo Camera has no particular gimmick, but he is netting more from wrestling (he says...
Footloose. In Lille, France, tile-setter Yvon Dherire slipped from a roof, plummeted six stories, landed unhurt in a baby buggy from 'which a mother had just snatched her child. Consequence: the mother fainted, fell, broke an ankle...
...Boston, at suburban Brookline's venerable Longwood Cricket Club, the next-to-last stop on the tournament line. There the National Doubles Championships were at stake. The goal they were all shooting for-the U.S. Singles-begins this week at Forest Hills. The big names: 1) skyscraping Yvon Petra of France, Wimbledon winner; 2) solemn Frank Parker, the U.S. champion; 3) brilliant but unpredictable ex-Coast Guardsman Jack Kramer; 4) jugeared Bill Talbert, best of the wartime tournament regulars. Among the women, there was one whose name led all the rest-California's Pauline Betz...