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...cousin but no partisan of the hero. Lawrence's part in the Arabian revolt, wrote Vansittart, "was not titanic, but it was considerable. Mr. Aldington cannot reconcile-nor did Lawrence himself-faults and gifts, purple and dust, Dichtung und Wahrheit, bravery and inaccuracy, daring and brusquerie, delicacy and cheek...
Last week, black Havana jutting from scarred cheek, Adolf Galland was home, the No. 1 candidate for commander of the soon-to-be 80,000-man West German air force. He landed in Frankfurt after six years' absence, cried: "I am happy to be back," and promptly denied the headlines about his new post. But the tall, slim airman, now 43, talked suspiciously like a commanding officer: "The new German air force will not be built around World War II flyers, who are now too old. It will be built around youth. It's now become a necessary...
...journey. I hope I still have some services to render." When he sat down, his wife leaned across to pat his hand affectionately. Then she took his arm, and together they passed through the applauding crowd, stopping once as Churchill, a tear glistening on his cheek, shook hands with Lord Salisbury and said: "Thank you so much, Bobbety. It was wonderful...
...night, 1903, Boston society was invited to see the results of Mrs. Jack's labors. They found the palace as crammed with art treasures as that of a Renaissance prince. Mrs. Jack kept adding to the collection until her death, delighted in hanging such beloved contemporaries as Sargent cheek by jowl with the great masters. Sargent's El Jaleo (an Andalusian dance) occupies a specially constructed Moorish alcove in the palace's "Spanish Cloister," is illuminated by footlights concealed behind potted greenery...
Catharsis. In Milwaukee, after walking up to a 205-lb. policeman and slapping him across the cheek, Richard D. Tump, 20, told the court: "I don't like policemen. I had all this inside me; now I guess it's released...