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...have taught in the villages "hidden in the folds of France" as well as in the fine cities of the plain. Here as there, within these whitewashed walls where the noble device of the Republic-Liberté, Egalité, Fraternite-imposes itself on the eyes of all as the glorious label of a regime, she teaches moral cleanliness, courage in action, respect for the given word, tolerance. . . . May those who wrought the last hours of our defeat be forever castigated in the history of our country...
...lately squired Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow. Active commander is Squadron Leader William Erwin Gibson Taylor, 35, formerly of the 5th Fighting Squadron, U. S. Naval Air Corps (aboard the carrier Lexington). He joined Britain's Fleet Air Arm last year, served on the carriers Argus, Furious, Glorious (sunk at Narvik). Most piquant Eagle name: Harry La Guardia of Hartford, Conn. (no kin to New York City's Mayor...
Trelawny and Byron decided to liberate Greece. But when Byron died at Missolonghi, Trelawny was not with him. He had met another "glorious being," a patriotic Greek outlaw named Odysseus, "a Bolivar who might become a Washington." They hunted bears and Turks together. Soon Trelawny (in a Greek kilt) was living with the Odysseus family in their mountain cave, had married Odysseus' half sister. But she was too fond of European fashions, and they parted. "Marriage," wrote Trelawny, "is a most unnatural state of things...
...work deep down under Buckingham Palace in a shelter improvised out of what was once the sitting room of the royal housemaids (see cut, p. 31). From the Palace George VI broadcast this week on a globe-girdling hookup, announced that to reward "worthily and promptly the many and glorious . . . deeds of gallantry" now being done by British civilians amid the havoc of bomb raids His Majesty has created the "George Cross" and the "George Medal...
...supply-is the least glorious job in the Army and one of the most necessary, entailing endless complications, endless bookkeeping. Supply officer in the General Staff is friendly, competent Brigadier General Richard Curtis Moore, topflight student at West Point and an engineer officer since he graduated...