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In the News (Sun 12 Oct 08)

  
  Print Article: To legion men she was 'La Miss'
Susan Travers, who has died in Paris aged 94, was the only woman to have joined the French Foreign Legion.
Travers was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Ordre du Corps d'Arme for her feat.
For Travers, childhood was comfortable but strict, and she had her most enjoyable times with her grandmother in Devon, away from her parents.
www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2004/01/02/1072908904354.html   (1188 words)

  
  Susan Travers
Susan Travers (born 1909) is a British citizen and daughter of a Royal admiral who, during World War II, was informally part of the French Légion Étrangère and became the chauffeur for Free French General Pierre Koenig[?].
Not long after, Travers joined a convoy into the rear area and Koenig agreed to her requests to return to Bir Hakeim, as he felt the German attack was a failure.
Travers vehicle had been hit by 11 bullets and not only was a shock absorber destroyed, but the brakes had also been ceased functioning.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/su/Susan_Travers.html   (447 words)

  
 Susan Travers - Wild Bill Guarnere.Community
Susan Travers, who died in Paris in 2003, aged 94, was the only woman to have joined the French Foreign Legion.
Susan Travers was awarded the Croix de Guerre and was "Citée à l'Ordre du Corps d'Armée" (mention of Honor to the Army Corps) for her feat.
Susan's childhood was comfortable but over-strict, and she had her most enjoyable times away from her parents with her grandmother in Devon.
forums.wildbillguarnere.com /index.php?showtopic=9038   (1335 words)

  
 Tomorrow to Be Brave: A Memoir of the Only Woman Ever to Serve in the French Foreign Legion - PowerBookSearch!
Travers, the only woman ever to officially serve in the French Foreign Legion and be awarded the prestigious Legion d'honneur, narrates the story of her remarkable life.
Tomorrow to be Brave is the story of Susan Travers's extraordinary life, from her privileged childhood in England through her rebellious youth partying her way across interwar Europe, to her rash decision to join the Free French forces at the outbreak of World War II.
Susan Travers was born in 1909 in London, and moved to the south of France with her parents when she was in her teens.
www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch0743200012.html   (2263 words)

  
 Kings Mills:Crafting the Travers Race Blanket.
Susan Laing with assistance of husband, Chris Laing, is creating the floral blanket salute to the winner of the Travers Stake.
But before Susan puts the blanket in cold-storage, Susan gives the patrons at the Wishing Well a preview of what the winner of the Travers Stakes will be wearing the next Saturday.
Susan does accept projects for floral design and may be contacted at 583-2693.
www.wiltonnewyork.com /KMTravers.htm   (219 words)

  
 Reflex Topography in the Nucleus of the Solitary Tract -- Travers and Travers 30 (1): i180 -- Chemical Senses
King, C.T., Travers, S.P., Rowland, N.E, Garcea, M. and Spector, A.C. Glossopharyngeal nerve transection eliminates quinine-stimulated fos-like immunoreactivity in the nucleus of the solitary tract: implications for a functional topography of gustatory nerve input in rats.
Travers, S.P. Quinine and citric acid elicit distinctive Fos-like immunoreactivity in the rat nucleus of the solitary tract.
Travers, J.B., Grill H.J. and Norgren, R. The effects of glossopharyngeal and chorda tympani nerve cuts on the ingestion and rejection of sapid stimuli: an electromyographic analysis in the rat.
chemse.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/full/30/suppl_1/i180   (1535 words)

  
 The Chazan Gallery @ Wheeler| Current Exhibition
Susan Heideman’s paintings are about “in-betweens,” entities that live in the lines separating classifications of taxonomy, realm, and condition.
Travers works on shaped canvases to amplify sculptural form and to create a palpable physical presence in his work.
Travers received his MFA from the American University in Washington, DC and his BFA at the Art Institute of Boston in Boston, MA.
www.wheelergallery.org /travers_heideman.htm   (366 words)

  
 Susan Travers - Wikipédia
Susan Travers (Grande-Bretagne, 23 septembre 1909 - 18 décembre, 2003, Paris, France) était une citoyenne britannique, fille d'un amiral de la marine de guerre britannique.
Avant l'invasion de la France (1940), Susan Travers servait comme conductrice d'ambulance en Finlande.
Le 10 juin, Susan Travers, conduisait le général lors de l'évacuation du camp.
fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Susan_Travers   (557 words)

  
 Woman's Determination: What Makes It Right or Wrong?, part 3
Susan Travers and Koenig began to have a relationship, after much hesitation on her part--she feared it would only lead to heartache.
Travers describes the courageous men on the ground hour after hour, day after day--"men who were half-starved and parched and yet determined not to surrender." In his essay "A Woman Is the Oneness of Aesthetic Opposites," Mr.
Travers makes no distinction between the Legion's determination to fight for justice during the war and its determination to fight for French conquest after, which hurt her life very much.
www.lynetteabel.org /L-ABEL-Seminar-Determination-C.html   (1185 words)

  
 CD Baby: SUSAN LAINEY: Susan Lainey
Susan's cover "Those Were The Days"recently aired on Warner Brothers Nip/Tuck as result of CD Baby's digital distribution.
Susan is the voice and "spiritual guide" of this collaboration which was written,composed,and produced by Bernie Tiger.
Susan does a few covers on this CD and they are wonderful – her voice and guitar carry the show and let the beauty of the music and lyrics come through.
cdbaby.com /cd/susanlainey   (725 words)

  
 Woman's Determination: What Makes It Right or Wrong?, part 2
Susan Travers was born September 23, 1909 in Devon, England, amidst great wealth.
Travers writes that he "almost certainly married her [mother] for her money," and later didn't have much to do with her.
Travers: "She was determined; but the nature of her determination made her careless where she shouldn't have been."
www.lynetteabel.org /L-ABEL-Seminar-Determination-B.html   (939 words)

  
 Dr. Susan Blackmore
Par exemple, elle nous fournit de nouvelles explications aussi bien pour l’évolution de l’énorme cerveau humain que pour celle du langage, tous deux difficilement explicables à travers une hypothèse évolutionniste ordinaire.
Parallèlement, les qualités d’imitation progressent à travers l’évolution du cerveau mais aussi celle du larynx, qui permet une meilleure reproduction de sons plus complexes.
Un des exemples est le type commun de virus qui voyage à travers « e-mail », qui pousse à transmettre une communication urgente à tous les amis.
www.susanblackmore.co.uk /Conferences/OntopsychFr.htm   (9043 words)

  
 Travers Family Line
NOTES: The Travers Family, re:Sarah--Administration of her estate was granted to her son John, Aug. 22, 1709, when she was referred to as "Sarah Wallingford alias Wash", of Bradford, "Relict of Nicholas Wallingford of Bradford.
In 1655 the widow Bridget petitioned the court regarding the estate, and said, in part, "That whereas Henry Travers, my husband, went away to England from mee seaven years agone, and left mee two children; my Daughter was of the age of ten years, and my son not full three years of age.
He then made his will and gave my daughter a Cow and a Heifer, to be paid to her at twelve years old...
www.geocities.com /helenehaw/Travers.html   (673 words)

  
 'Wicked lady' thrice decorated for war heroics wins immortality | UK news | The Guardian
Travers is one of 200 people who died in 2003 who are added as new names to the ODNB website today.
Travers was born into an unhappy English military family.
After withstanding attack for four months, the brigade broke out, with Travers driving Amilakvari and Koenig under fire to British lines in what was hailed as a symbolic victory for the Free French.
www.guardian.co.uk /uk/2007/jan/04/books.booksnews   (645 words)

  
 Music Department Director   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Susan Parton Stanard, mezzo-soprano, has appeared in concert throughout the United States, Germany, Austria and Scandinavia.
Critics have called Susan “Superb!…Her voice is exceptionally strong and rich…an exciting mixture of coyness and aggressiveness…” The Danish music critic of the daily Assens Amt Avis said of Susan, “ A real find… a voice to listen to…her interpretation of Wagner’s ‘Wesendonck Lieder’ would have thrilled Wagner himself…”
Susan made her recording debut in a Columbia Records recording of the Verdi Requiem.
www.lc.cc.il.us /Music.nsf/pages/MusicDirector   (224 words)

  
 Susan Travers | English | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
Susan Travers (September 23, 1909 - December 18, 2003) was a British subject and daughter of a Royal Navy admiral who, during World War II, was informally part of the French Foreign Legion and became the chauffeur for Free French General Pierre Koenig.
Prior to the war, she was a semi-pro tennis player.
For her actions in the Battle of Bir Hakeim (1942), Travers was awarded the Croix de Guerre.
www.babylon.com /definition/Susan_Travers   (88 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Tomorrow to Be Brave: A Memoir of the Only Woman Ever to Serve in the French Foreign Legion: Susan Travers, ...
Englishwoman Susan Travers, aka "La Miss," now 91, was the only woman ever to serve officially with the French Foreign Legion.
At age 91, Travers decided that she could finally write the autobiography of her life and her part in the French Foreign Legion because all the principal people have passed away.
Travers spent her childhood in England and eventually moved to France with her parents.
www.amazon.com /Tomorrow-Be-Brave-Memoir-Foreign/dp/0743200012   (924 words)

  
 Event Registration
“Wherever you go, I will go too.” These words Susan Travers spoke to General Koenig, commander of the Free French and the Foreign Legion in North Africa during the Second World War, and the man with whom she was in love.
Surrounded for fifteen days by Rommel’s Afrika Korps, outnumbered ten to one, pounded by waves of Stuka and Heinkel bombers, Susan, the general and 2,000 men seemed to be doomed.
It is a tale of exceptional courage, against overwhelming odds, and a passionate love story played out against the landscape of the desert, as Susan prepared to risk everything for the country and for the man she loved.
host.evanced.info /quincy/evanced/eventsignup.asp?ID=1287   (244 words)

  
 Rod McKuen - Flight Plan
Determined to get both her passengers to safety, she pressed the accelerator of her Ford to the floor and burst through the German lines, blazing a trail for the other Allied vehicles to follow.
Susan Travers was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Ordre du Corps d'Arme for her feat.
The medal was pinned on her by Koenig, by then Minister of Defence.
www.mckuen.com /flights/220704.htm   (1353 words)

  
 Descendants of George Mason, 1629-1686 - Person Page 64
     Addison Bronaugh is the son of Addison Carter Bronaugh and Susan Travers Peyton.
     Fannie Bronaugh is the daughter of Addison Carter Bronaugh and Susan Travers Peyton.
     Susan Claire Phillips is the daughter of Derrell Brent Phillips and Pamela Marie Luster.
www.gunstonhall.org /masonweb/p64.htm   (1763 words)

  
 InteliHealth:
Susan Travers of Ohio State University said the most interesting finding of the paper is that the neurons that respond to garlic compounds are only a subset of those that respond to the capsaicin in hot peppers.
This type of specificity would give some basis for why people can tell the compounds apart, said Travers, who was not part of Julius' research team.
Many cooks know that roasted garlic produces a much milder taste that the raw bulbs and Travers noted that a separate study had found that baking garlic eliminated its ability to stimulate the TRPA1 channels.
www.intelihealth.com /IH/ihtIH/emihc000/333/7228/431362.html   (545 words)

  
 Publisher-supplied biographical information about contributor(s) for Library of Congress control number 00051401
Publisher-supplied biographical information about contributor(s) for Tomorrow to be brave / Susan Travers with Wendy Holden.
The Library of Congress makes no claims as to the accuracy of the information provided, and will not maintain or otherwise edit/update the information supplied by the publisher.
Awarded the Military Medal and the Légion d'Honneur, she is now a widow with two children and five grandchildren and lives outside Paris.
www.loc.gov /catdir/bios/simon052/00051401.html   (214 words)

  
 http://www.beanywood.com/ - The Site of the New England Film Movement - Susan Travers (Suess)
Susan was in theater all through K-12 grade.
She was on her first film set in ’96.
Susan started to branch out a bit from Boston to Providence, RI where she has met and collaborated with several extremely talented writers, producers, directors, actors, artists, and plenty of wonderful people behind the scenes.
www.beanywood.com /index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=96&tab=getajaxsandboxTab&Itemid=31   (261 words)

  
 Blockbuster Online - Person Detail Information Page
Susan Travers and John Arnatt also appear, along with various and sundry red herrings.
Once a frequent visitor to the "Late Late Show", Fog for a Killer hasn't been seen much since the early eighties.
Policeman David Sumner arranges for the lovely Susan Travers to act as bait....but will he be able to get to her before the maniac finishes the job?
www.blockbuster.com /catalog/personDetails/63006   (796 words)

  
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These were the words Susan Travers spoke to General Koenig, the commander of the Free French and the Foreign Legion in North Africa during the Second World War, and the man with whom she was in love.
Speeding across the minefields of no-man's-land toward Rommel's deadly panzer tanks, her foot hard on the acclerator, Susan led the convoy of men and vehicles away from Bir Hakeim.
It is a tale of exceptional courage against overwhelming odds and a passionate love story played out against the epic landscape of the desert, as Susan prepared to risk everything for the country and the man she loved so well.
www.trademe.co.nz /nz/auction-75007042.htm   (318 words)

  
 Susan P. Travers - Neuroscience Graduate Studies Program
Susan P. Travers - Neuroscience Graduate Studies Program
Link to NLM PubMed publications list for Susan P. Travers (last 10 years)
Our focus is the sense of taste, but we also study oral tactile and thermal sensations because all these modalities interact to give rise to the complex experience of flavor.
www.ngsp.osu.edu /3549.cfm   (100 words)

  
 The Snake Woman movie posters and memorabilia at MovieGoods
Cast: John P. McCarthy, Susan Travers, Arnold Marle; DIRECTED BY: Sidney J. Furie.
She promptly begins killing the local male populace until Scotland Yard is called in to investigate.
The curvy Travers is appropriately snakey but this movie is dull.
www.moviegoods.com /movie_product.asp?affiliateID=1129&sku=197305&master_movie_id=944   (288 words)

  
 New England Artists - Susan Travers
Actor - Canton, MA Susan was performing in the womb, giving her dear Ma nothing but heart burn (the docs tried to blame it on the full head of fl hair she was born with that fell out in patches – damn witch doctors).
While growing up she was the only person in her many neighborhoods (Army Brat) who always knew what she wanted to be when she grew up – a bloody actor – welp, not bloody per se, just a plain ole actor!
Here is where she will settle and play until LA reaches across the dusty lands to snap her up!
www.ahtspot.com /Ahtists/Ahtists/SusanTravers   (234 words)

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