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...with the four stars and unsmiling face was Henri Eugène Navarre, a quiet but steely, cultured but tough general of the French army. He had come from Paris to take command of a war that was going badly for France and the non-Communist world-a Red nightmare that had clung to the green jungles and rice fields of Indo-China for seven years...
...they get the means and the will to win it. The new lift in morale came partly from the Allied governments, which had decided to plunge fresh resources into the war-more troops from France, more millions from the U.S. But in great part, it came from slim, trim Henri Navarre...
...Henri Navarre is an individualist, but a cold and aloof one whose quota of wit, urbanity and charm shows itself only at small, usually intimate gatherings. "He is just a retiring man who suffers in society," says his only son, Jacques, 27, who is a businessman in Paris. Attractive to women, a man of taste (his Paris apartment houses a Goya, a Reynolds, a portrait of Madame's distinguished Napoleonic ancestor Murat), and a fancier of cats (because of their independence and aloofness), he was once described by a friend: "There is an 18th century fragrance about...
Though his surname seems to have historic overtones, Henri Navarre was born of solid bourgeois stock at Villefranche de Rouergue, in southwestern France. His father, a polished, urbane scholar, was a professor of Greek at Toulouse University, but his son set out early on a military career, served on the front in 1916, and with the Americans at Chateau-Thierry in 1918 (retaining from that an unwavering admiration for U.S. troops). He graduated from Saint-Cyr in 1918, later went back for further studies...
Elaine (Percy Faith's orchestra with oboe solo by Mitch Miller; Columbia, also Hugo Winterhalter's orchestra with musette-accordion solo by Henri Rene; Victor). One of those bittersweet tunes from a French movie (Violettes Imperiales), on which both companies lavished top performers. The Columbia version has Miller's familiar buttery oboe tone; Victor presents Winterhalter in one of his loud moods, with plenty of braying horns...