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This afternoon the varsity will have a somewhat easier time when it plays Wesleyan at 3:45 p.m. at Soldiers Field. But Wesleyan boasts number one man Henri Salaun who also gave the squash team a hard time last winter...
...gabled Chateau Henri IV in the Forest of Fontainebleau near Paris, once the summer home of French kings, lay hollow and still over the Easter weekend. Outside, a group of British Tommies in shirtsleeves played soccer. Inside, in the dank, cobwebbed rooms, only one officer could be accounted for; he was sweating over a regimental payroll...
...week's end another group of travelers was on its way to the U.S. Representatives of Britain, Belgium and Luxembourg-Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, Premier Paul-Henri Spaak and Foreign Minister Joseph Bech-were heading west on the Queen Mary to sign the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington. France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman was about to leave on the same mission. They would be here to endorse an affirmative act on which the U.S. people, except for a noisy minority, were no longer divided -an act of determination which was the best answer to the fulminations...
Died. General Henri Honoré Giraud, 70, French hero of three wars (he was cited for bravery 13 times, decorated 16 times); of intestinal cancer and pernicious anemia; in Dijon, France. Lean, towering (6 ft. 4 in.) Soldier Giraud, who escaped from the Germans in World War I with the help of Nurse Edith Cavell, was captured again by the Germans in World War II, during the Sedan breakthrough. He escaped again, made his way with Allied help to Gibraltar - and frustration. He had been picked by the Allies to command French forces in Africa after the invasion...
...Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, 92, hero of Verdun in World War I, and head of Vichy in World War II, now living out his days on the He d'Yeu in the Bay of Biscay, was due for a change. After giving him a routine checkup, his doctors urged his jailers to give him easier living conditions, and cut out all his strenuous menial duties (e.g., cleaning up his own room...