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Show WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON 1EW YORK. When Charles -1- ' Maurras came out of the Sante prison last year, he was met by a committee of distinguished French-. French-. men, who nomi- Leaves Jail nated him for e To Get Bid Nobel peace prize To Academy and1J sai,d would make him a member of the Academy. They have just fulfilled the latter promise, prom-ise, and M. Maurras becomes an immortal by a majority of one vote. He had spent 250 days in jail on a charge of having urged the assassination as-sassination of 140 members of the chamber of deputies who had voted for sanctions against Italy; also on a charge of inciting the French people peo-ple to "sharpen up their kitchen knives" for use against certain proscribed pro-scribed politicians. In the 250 days he had written five books, swelling his vast collection collec-tion of books on biography, politics, economics, literary criticism, history histo-ry and what not to probably well over 100. I talked to him once in the Cafe des Lilas, a fragile, deaf, bearded old man with a contentious, blazing mind which makes one think of a sizzling battery running an automobile au-tomobile without any engine. In 1923, he was in jail for four months in a somewhat anti-climatic , , n adventure for one Showed Dace who was to be gar. Technique landed as an im- Of Terror mortaL Three members of the chamber of deputies were kidnaped and fed castor oil Mussolini is said to have got his broad prospectus of Fascism from Maurras and the bald head of one of them was painted paint-ed with violet ink and glue. In 1925, M. Maurras was sentenced sen-tenced to two years in prison, the charge being that he had threatened threat-ened to kill the minister of the interior. in-terior. Among the causes of his incarceration in October, 1936, was conspiracy evidence in the assault on Premier Leon Blum, in which he was severely beaten. His books and virulent editorials against democracy in the Royalist, paper, translated into many languages, lan-guages, are the fount of Fascist doctrine all over the world. His hatred of democracy is savage and vitriolic. He is witty, learned, brilliant bril-liant and he has the most excoriating excoriat-ing and corrosive vocabulary in France. A FOOTNOTE to the main text of the world discussion on Japan bombing babies is the interchange between Avery Brundage, chairman of the American Jap Bombs Olympic commit-Cause commit-Cause Rift tee, and William In Olympics f- Bingham (Bill the Plugger), Harvard Har-vard athletic director. Mr. Brundage Brund-age says it has nothing to do with sports, and Mr. Bingham says it has with sportsmanship, at any rate and he withdraws from the, committee and the 1940 games. The sports writers are becoming almost metaphysical in weighing and appraising the moral values of the argument. Bill the Plugger says, in effect, that he won't play with baby-killers. He became Bill the Plugger by losing 19 races at Harvard and winning win-ning the twentieth. Thereafter, he was Harvard's crack miler. He started out plugging at the age of fourteen, leaving school to work in a mill and help support his five younger brothers and sisters. He saved -S30. went to Exeter and worked his way through Exeter and Harvard. TF GERARD B. LAMBERT builds 1 a house, they're likely to find a center-board and a skys'l yard on it. It's hard to see how he can pet his mind off his I Ajt. Lambert yacht:r.g, but. at I Keeps Mind any rate, he be- ! On Yachts con'cs ad" i v:ser to Stuart Mc Donald, feder.,! h -ufir.g adrr.i.-.if tra- tf T. Tre carries nrd shaves rf tr.e -..:r.e at St. L .;:. He was rr.e c i tl-.c or:;::-.;,! ticker of I..:. :. : . r.. Author cf a s; .r.tod "Dt ftr.fe of E..b!:;::" in t.-.c A rican r.lcr-' r.lcr-' cury. cor:-.- - - ' ' c Eastc-rn Yacht cl..b :. i. Mass., |