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Warned Niebuhr: "The American soldier . . . lacks help in finding the spiritual and moral significance of the titanic struggle in which he is engaged. We may one day rue this neglect...
...coxcomb, he was celebrated throughout the Quarter for drinking Modigliani under the table; his fondness for this potent Italian apéritif still remains unabated. In 1925, disguised as Ashton-Wolfe of the Sûreté, he took to frequenting the milieu, the sinister district centering about the rue de Lappe. As 'Papa' Thernardier, he organized the gang that stole a towel from the Hotel Claridge and defaced the blotters at the American Express Co. A démarche from the Quai d'Orsay shortly forced him to flee Paris...
...Business editor of TIME is John Davenport, who was for years a star writer on FORTUNE. On the staff are-La Rue Applegate, six years on the Business staff of the New York Times; Perry Githens, three years news editor of Business Week; Emeline Nollen, who used to be an ace FORTUNE researcher, and Penrose Scull, our widely-quoted transportation expert, who for ten years had his own world-wide freight-forwarding business...
...roared defiantly up the Champs-Elysées. Before the Arc de Triomphe it zoomed, then dipped in salute to the Unknown Soldier, dropped a huge, weighted tricolor. Circling, the plane thundered back down the Champs-Elysées. At the Place de la Concorde it swerved toward the Rue Royale and sent shell after cannon shell smashing into German military headquarters (once the French Ministry of Marine). The plane vanished to the northwest, followed only by a few feeble tracer bullets...
...Francis Boot Prize of $100 for the best composition in concerted vocal music, was won by Adrian J. P. La Rue, second-year graduate student, of Ann Arbor, Mich...