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 James Willy Walsh was born at Lyon, France and served during WWI as an aviator,

 recieving the Croix de Guerre. After the war, he went into the theatre business,

 running a chain of Swiss newsreel theatres. In 1938 Walsh left for America on an
 
 assignment for the French Armaments Commission and after France fell to the Nazis

 in 1940, decided to stay in the United States. Arriving in Louisville, Kentucky

 he opened the Scoop Theatre in 1941. From 1944 to 1948, Walsh was the press and

 information attache for the French government in Chicago. In 1955, then an

 industrial photographer, he was named the French consular-agent for Louisville.

 A teacher of French and History at the University of Louisville, and author of

 "Petain: Verdun to Vichy", Willy Walsh died 11 Mar 1972 at the age of 77.

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 Source: THE COURIER-JOURNAL, March 12, 1972, pg. B 12