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...awakened at 4 a.m. He sleepily rose from his prison cot, donned his seven-star uniform, shuffled into the hushed courtroom. Nonagenarian Marshal Henri Philippe Petain sat nervously at first, then fell into a half-doze...
Mass & Energy. In 1896 Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity, which is the spontaneous release of atomic energy by certain heavy metals. Becquerel had some photographic plates lying in a dark drawer near a bit of uranium; he found the plates lightstruck. His researches led to the discovery of radium by Pierre and Marie Curie, and it was by using radium for cancer therapy that man first harnessed atomic energy to his own ends...
...moment the spotlight shifted from the treason trial of Marshal Henri Philippe Pátain to his wife and the wife of Pierre Laval. In Paris' Cour de Justice, the two women, once among the French elite, now accused of "intelligence with the enemy," answered questions in a preliminary interrogation...
Next day he was whisked to court as a witness in the treason trial of Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain. The testimony of another figure from France's dingy past had prepared...
...back in the news. (Notable exception: flamboyant Jean Borotra, last reported under arrest as Vichy's ex-Sports Director.) This week Yvon Petra, a native of Indo-China, captured the French championship by defeating former Davis Cupper Bernard Destremeau, 7-5, 6-4, 6-2. Then dapper little Henri Cochet, 45-year-old ace of the '20s, paired with Pierre Pellizza to win the doubles crown from Petra and Destremeau...