gawky Americans in ill-fitting French garb following at a distance, trying to keep that blue beret in sight. In my own walks, I had noticed the many plaques honoring the Resistance on buildings ...

I've only ever gotten out of one traffic ticket, and I am convinced it was because I was wearing a beret. I was 18, zooming through my hometown in my 1975 Oldsmobile well past midnight with late ...

"The Girl in the Blue Beret" tells the story of a B-17 co-pilot shot down over Belgium in 1944, then helped by the French Resistance network to escape across the Pyrenees to Spain, and then to ...

Once-ubiquitous hat worn by Picasso and Sam Kinison is worn today by ... whom? Feb. 19, 2014 -- The French beret, once as common in France as baseball caps in America, is in trouble. French ...

DURHAM, N.C. — How the Duke Blue Devils got their ... with the flowing cape and beret captured public attention. When the U.S. entered the war, units of the French Blue Devils toured the country ...

BERETS REPRESENT three things I’ve always aspired to be: French, chic and confident. The first is a lost cause, given my Italian heritage and American upbringing. I’m working on the latter two.

A blue beret from World War I is displayed for all to see, and touch, on a living room shelf in David Pottinger’s Toronto home. It belonged to his beloved grandfather, Willard John Pottinger.

became the country’s sole maker of traditional berets after it bought Blancq-Olibet, its only French competitor, which was almost 200 years old. Cheaper knockoffs from China, India, and the ...

The American and his French rescuers slowly join on a journey of mutual understanding and healing. In “The Girl in the Blue Beret,” Ms. Mason has crafted a novel of reconciliation with the ...