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...Henri Philippe Pétain, 89, former Marshal of France: serving a life sentence (commuted from death penalty) in a Pyrenees fortress...
...Davis doesn't consider himself an abstractionist; he tags himself as just a painter who has finally learned what not to paint. His father was Edward Wyatt Davis, art director of the Philadelphia Press (TIME, Oct. 29). His first teacher was Robert Henri, leader of the "Ash Can School" of painting, who scorned pastoral prettiness in art. In his teens Davis obediently wandered the streets of New York, sketching what he saw. He learned to love the rattling, ironwork kaleidoscope of city life, the eye-catching colors of chain-store fronts, gasoline pumps and taxicabs; the bright blinking...
Last week Pierre Laval came to judgment. With him came none of the dreadful pity, the sense of terrible duty that had been in every Frenchman's heart during the trial, death sentence and commutation to life imprisonment, of old Marshal Henri Pétain. The elimination of Pierre Laval, a necessary chore, might have been a satisfying vengeance. He made it a shameful farce...
...Henri Philippe Pétain, under sentence of life imprisonment (commuted from death), was voted by the French Academy to be no longer one of their immortals...
Touché. If the remark bothered le grand Charlie, he did not show it. Next morning it was his turn. He met U.S. newsmen at the sumptuous residence of Ambassador Henri Bonnet. He seemed completely at ease, smiled as a newsman brought up the President's remarks. Oh, yes, said Charlie, he could understand the U.S. President's being "struck" by some stories in France's newspapers. He, himself, had also been frequently "struck" by stories about him in the U.S. press...