Praising his gallantry under fire, a French naval court-martial cleared Captain Guillaume Rons Cristophe Marie Joseph Michel de Toulouse-Lautrec, commander of the destroyer Sirocco (lost at Dunkirk) and cousin of the late great, dwarfed Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, acidulous painter of fin-de-siecle France.
Chilean Heavyweight Arturo Godoy drew order number 3981 in the draft, fumed: "I want to fight . . . Hitler, Mussolini or Joe Louis, any way, any time." Disgusted at being called "Liz" for short, Elizabeth Emerson, 16, of Summit, N. J., daughter of Sumner B. Emerson, vice president of Morgan...
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