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...sign above an editor's desk: "1) Where is the fact? 2) Where is the human interest? 3) Where is the tra-la-la?" The thing that most impressed him was the tralala. When France fell, Corre managed to miss the occupation's hardships by going to Lyon. But he turned up as an eleventh-hour Resistance soldier under General Leclerc and rode into Paris as a private in one of the first jeeps behind Leclerc...
Only 48 hours earlier, William Lyon Mackenzie King had stood before the National Liberal Federation in Ottawa and announced his long-awaited retirement (TIME, March 31). Party leader since 1919, and Prime Minister for two decades, Mackenzie King told his audience that he felt the weight of his 73 years. He asked the federation to call a national Liberal convention (probably in August) to choose his successor...
...Parliament is dissolved, which might happen at any time with Charles de Gaulle waiting in the wings, the constitution provides that the Assembly president shall take over as "acting Premier" until a new government is formed. That would be Radical Socialist Edouard Herriot of Lyon, reliable as an oak, who was re-elected to the presidency last week. But M. Herriot is old and ailing. If he were too ill to serve, the first vice president would take over. Therefore, reasoned the Assembly majority, Jacques Duclos must not again be first vice president...
...Mary C. Lyon, Radcliffe '50, will assume leadership of the '48 Signature editorial board, effective February 1, according to the announcement by the 'Cliffe publication yesterday. She succeeds Ireno C. Tinker, Radcliffe '49 as editor-in-chief...
When interviewed, Miss Lyon, who lives in West Bridgewater, stated that her election as the next Signature head "came as a little surprise." She added that the new staff will continue the policy of specializing the issues to certain themes. It will also concentrate on getting more and better material...