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...Milton S. Eisenhower, 45, president of Kansas State College, appointed last week as special assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture; Edgar Eisenhower, a Tacoma, Wash, attorney; Earl Eisenhower, a Charleroi, Pa. electrical engineer; and Arthur Eisenhower, vice president of Kansas City's Commerce Trust...
Song-&-dance Man Maurice Chevalier, who has turned quisling, was all set to walk onstage in a Charleroi, Belgium hall, when saboteurs blew up the electrical installations...
This was not the first time Henri Honoré Giraud had escaped from the Germans. In 1914, aged 35, he was wounded in a French bayonet attack near Charleroi and left for dead on the field. Captured by the Germans, he made his first escape via Holland to England, aided by his fluent German, variously disguised as a butcher, stableboy, coal man, and magician in a traveling circus. At one point he was helped by Nurse Edith Cavell. In 1915 he was back with the French Fifth Army...
Best bet was that Gamelin had been put on the shelf, joining the spiritual company of his old chief General Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre, who in World War I bungled at Verdun, and General Charles Louis Marie Lanrezac, who boggled at Charleroi...
ROBERT WAYNE Charleroi...