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1944Marie-France Pisier, French actress, director, and screenwriter (died 2011)[†]
Marie-France Pisier was a French actress, screenwriter, and director. She appeared in numerous films of the French New Wave, and twice earned the national César Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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over 4,000 Allied planes bomb northern France and Low Countries airfields, communications and coastal defenses; Eng southeast coast rocked by bombing of French coast; Osnabrueck and Ruhr targets hit; 9th Air Force and Brit Navy Seafires roles noted; map
Gers withdraw in east-central sector in move to shorten front line; Brit 8th Army Polish and Empire troops move forward to Lettopalena and Palena at Malella Mt range base, 12 mi below Sulmona; Indian units repulse Ortona patrol; minor activity reptd on Cassino, lower Garigliano and Anzio sectors; Allied planes bomb highway traffic north of Rome; attack Tiber River shipping; Rome radio repts suburbs bombed; map
Receives 2d DSM; illus
ends govt possession of Montgomery Ward & Co
LONDON, May 9 -- "Floating hedgehogs," which appear to be batteries of field and anti-aircraft guns mounted on obsolete naval vessels, have been added to the invasion defenses in the English Channel and the North Sea, according to the German High Command weekly Militaerische Korrespondenz aus Deutschland.
Transfer of sum from gen to special school fund for repairs opposed by Mrs J M Lindlof
US awards for action, Far Eastern Front
Slain by M Kirkland and E Foster in revenue for reptg their school records theft; Kirkland held for homicide; Foster, as juvenile delinquent
Assails CIO backers of poll tax abolition bill, Sen