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...scandalized, last week, when languorous Miss Georges Lewys, a once branded* California poet-novelist was officially decorated by the French Government and notified that a volume of her poems will be placed in a crystal casket on a marble base at the entrance to the great Memorial Tower at Verdun...
...Dear Miss Lewys: "The President and I are reading your Verdun and Ballads at Brule. He highly prizes this marvelous work. "Grace Coolidge...
...poem "Verdun" reads in part: I know a place in Picardy Where the bois is rich with laughter With dead men's bones and live men's groans And bird sounds that come after! . . . O, the birds, O, the birds, Singing in the Bois de La Folie...
Died. Baron Karl von Skoda, 51, inventor of the Skoda howitzer (bane of Liege, Antwerp, Verdun); in Vienna...
...Author. War-author Zweig was intimately acquainted with Flanders lice and oaths and mud, having wallowed thirteen months at Verdun. On the Eastern front he knew similar nastiness, saw deeper implications. A German Jew, 41, he has studied French and English literature, translated much of Kipling's verse. He is no relation to Stefan Zweig, the popular modern who adapted Ben Jonson's Volpone for the Theatre Guild...