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...French Resistance did not encourage the participation of women--which is all the more a tribute to the determination of Andre De Jongh. As a twentysomething Belgian nurse, she helped found the Comet Line, a route subsequently used by 400 Allied soldiers (118 of whom she personally accompanied) to escape the Nazis. "It was our job," she said. De Jongh was arrested in 1943, survived a German camp and later worked in a leper hospital in Ethiopia...
...theater, but it was undeniably one of the most incredible theatrical experiences of my life. Charles Spencer of London’s Daily Telograph said that Beale’s was a performance he had “never seen bettered,” and Nicholas de Jongh of the Evening Standard went so far as to call Beale’s enactment “the Hamlet of a lifetime.” But these praises hardly begin to do justice to Beale’s accomplishments. Even the assortment of awards Beale garnered—a London Evening...
Etneric de Jongh Tenerife, Canary Islands...
...other football managers whose present titles were listed above are Robert E. Gross '19, President and Director of Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Stanley de Jongh Osborne '26, President, Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation, and William S. Youngman, Jr. '29, President, C. V. Starr & Company and legal counsel to Chiang Kai-shek. Osborne also managed track...
...Marsh in line to succeed Gurley, whose retirement in two years is mandatory, the Santa Fe reinstituted the long-abandoned post of board chairman, also gave Gurley the newly created title of chief executive officer-though Marsh will have operating charge of the railroad. ¶Stanley de Jongh Osborne, 52, was named president of Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. in the first top management changes since the merger of Olin Industries, Inc. and the Mathieson Chemical Corp. in 1954. He succeeds Thomas S. Nichols, 58, who will become chairman of the board. Old Board Chairman John M. Olin, 64, will become...