Show WHO S NEWS THIS aa WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON na N EW YORK when charles maurras came out of the santo sante prison last year he was met by a committee com in atee of distinguished french men who nomi leaves jail ped him for the to get bid nobel peace prize to academy and said they would make him a member mem ber ot of the academy they have just fulfilled the latter promise and AT maurras becomes an immortal by a majority of one vote he had spent days in jail on a charge of having urged the assassination sassi nation of members of the chamber of deputies who had voted for sanctions against italy also on a charge of inciting the french people to sharpen up their kitchen knives for use against certain proscribed politicians in the days he had written five books swelling his vast collection of books on biography politics economics literary criticism history and what not to probably well over 1 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 to without any engine in 1923 he was m jail for four months in a somewhat anti climatic adventure for one showed duce who 0 o was to be gar technique landed as an im of terror mortal T three h r e e members of the chamber of deputies were and fed castor oil mussolini is is said I 1 to have got his broad prospectus of fascism from maurras and the bald head of one of them was painted with violet ink and glue in 1925 M Alaur maurras ras was sentenced to two years in prison the charge being that he had threatened to kill the minister of the interior 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 while attending the funeral of a friend his books and virulent editorials against democracy in m the royalist paper translated into many languages gua are the fount tit of fascist doctrine all over the world his hatred of dem democracy bracy is savage and vitriolic he is witty learned brilliant and he has the most excoriating and corrosive vocabulary in france 0 0 0 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 rifi riff tee and william in n lymp olympics s 3 bangham bill the harvard athleta athle tc d rector mr aar brundage brunda a e says it hs has nothing to do with s orts and nd mr Bing bingham harri says it h ins his is with sportsmanship at any rz arte te 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 says in in effect that he wont play with baby killers he became bill the by losing 19 races at harvard and winning the twentieth thereafter he was Harv ards crack miler ile he started out plu plugging baing at the age of fourteen leaving school to work ina inamell in amill mill and help support his five younger brothers and sisters ile he saved 30 went to exeter and worked his way through exeter and harvard ile he came out of the war a captain witty with appropriate decorations did a turn in the banking business in texas and became harvard graduate supervisor and track coach in 1921 on the side lie he is president of a concern which imports rubber goods IF TF GERARD B LAMBERT builds 1 a house likely to find a centerboard center board and a yard on it its hard to see how he can get his mind off his mr lambert yachting but at af keeps mind any rate he beon yachts comes special ad un to stuart mcdonald federal housing administrator the gargles and shaves of the multitudes built his chemical fortune at st louis he was one 0 oi the original backers of lindbergh Lind bergt and the originators of great adver advertising slogans author of a spirited defense ol 01 babbitts in ill the american mer cury commander of the easters yacht club of marblehead mass he maintains a valhalla for gallar gallan r old yachts Q consolidated news features service |