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...come at times from a Supernatural Power. Also a Catholic,* also at times a masterful man, Joffre could fail of the highest achievements and yet be loved, as a father who has not wholly succeeded is loved by his children. On Jan. 12, 1852, to a mother who bore eleven children, the future Marshal Joffre was born at Rivesaltes in the eastern Pyrenees. In 1870 Joffre took a student's furlough from the École Polytechnique to fight in the defense of Paris, unsuccessfully. With soldiering in his blood, he went to the Far East, assisted at the French...
...where he kept himself alive painting scenery for the old haphazard cinema studios of Fort Lee, N. J. Six months in the Navy during the War knocked the French impressionism out of him. He began to develop his own style. In 1919 he started work on a project that bore its first tangible fruits last week: a gigantic pictorial history of modern...
...women who are . . . scientific . . . are a race set apart ... a neutral people," in the opinion of Albert Einstein. And no neuter-lover is he. He was divorced 15 years ago from his first wife, Clara, Serbian mathematician, with whom he studied at the Zurich Polytechnic Institute and who bore his two sons, Albert and Edward...
...other things on that scale." Corroborates Biographer West: "The gossip flourished, but no story of meanness or betrayal has ever faced the light. No story has ever faced the light. There is no story that cannot face the light. The paper of his study at Easton Glebe bore the garter and Honi soit qui mal y pense. That states his case...
...second day of the trial Professor Ramzin concluded his confession with a four-hour address, bore out all the contentions of Prosecutor Krylenko, summed...