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Among the very few Americans to be granted special audience by the Pope while the Cardinals-designate wait for their birettas were Mr. Isaac Gimbel and Mr. Charles Gimbel, owners of great stores. They came with a letter from Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia. Marshal Foch, a devout Catholic, also came to town...
Macbeth, James K. Hackett, hav-ing acquired the Legion of Honor for his single performance of Shakespeare's tragedy in Paris, presents Macbeth, now in Manhattan, seemingly, with all the might of the French Government behind him. He is like Foch at the Marne, standing immobile against the battering thrusts of fate. Apparently up to the climacteric point he has done nothing but shake his head like a lazy, shaggy lion, tossing the blows from him. And then like Foch he charges and turns the tide completely...
Among those backing the project are: Dr. Roux, head of the Pasteur Institute; Baronne Lajeune, Le Maréchal Foch, Mme. Louis Stern, Joseph Barthélemy, Dr. Alexander Bruno of the Rockefeller Institute and Professor Albert Calmette. Jean Stern, No. 18 Rue Octave Feuillet, Paris, is Treasurer...
Ferdinand Foch...
...Europe on the Baltic, with General Pershing. He had a commission as correspondent for the Times, which after a bit was made a roving commission. He wandered over Europe cultivating friends and harvesting interviews* in a way that was the envy of many less gifted correspondents. Pershing, Lloyd George, Foch, Northcliffe, Joffre, Clemenceau, King Constantine, Wilson were his material. The nature of his acquaintanceship with these men is well illustrated by such despatches as: "I met the Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, casually in Downing Street today. He was coming out from luncheon, and I asked him What he thought...