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Author Linderman shows Plenty-coups as a kindly, dignified, brave and wise old man. Not all his story was simple; when Linderman had difficulty in following the complications of the ancient tobacco-seed ceremony, Plenty-coups repeated the explanation twice, then said: "Ho! There is Something here! Something that does not wish you to understand. Do not try, Sign-Talker. Let it alone...
Decorated. Edward Nash Hurley, 65, Chicago financier, Commander of the Legion of'Honor, order of Ta Sho Cha Ho (China), Grand Officer Crown of Italy, by the Vatican; with the order of Knight...
...convert had a hard row to hoe. He tried to found a Catholic university in Dublin, and was thwarted; was promised a bishopric, which never came; was asked to make a translation of the Bible, and the plans fell through. But when Charles Kingsley, famed author of Westward Ho!, attacked him, calling him Jesuitical, Newman's series of replies (the Apologia pro vita sua) not only demolished Kingsley but reestablished Newman's reputation as the most important religious figure in England. He wrote the Apologia in seven weeks, sometimes working for 22 hours at a stretch. Says Biographer...
Next, General Ho removed his headquarters from the city he was supposed to be defending to a strongly built cement factory on the opposite side of the river. Finally he sent an airplane to drop leaflets over the principal enemy force, encamped only 25 miles upstream, the famed "Ironsides Army" of General Chang Fa-K'uei (TIME, Oct. 14). The leaflets shamelessly offered following itemized bribes...
...every field gun crew who desert with their gun to General Ho...