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...lakes and seas. He was fascinated by weather; few experiences pleased him more than to be out in a small boat in a storm. "That's fine! That's fine!" he would cry every time a big wave tossed the boat aloft. He drew on foot, on horseback and on trains, was outraged when the conductor would not hold the train long enough for him to complete a sketch: "Damn the fellow. He has no feeling!" His work was championed by such men as Critic John Ruskin and Painter Sir Thomas Lawrence and commanded top prices...
...horseback and on foot, 300 Colombian peasants in ponchos and floppy felt hats trekked through the jungles and coffee fincas to a settlement in the Andean backlands 25 miles outside Bogotá. The men carried leaflets: "Viva the organized masses!" A Red caudillo, Víctor Julio Merchán, delivered a welcoming harangue, and the stubble-bearded troop responded with a clenched-fist salute. From an equally isolated redoubt not far to the east, a second Red band, commanded by Juan de la Cruz Varela, peddled at gunpoint 1 peso coupons bearing Lenin's picture and the appeal...
...rule will be more difficult if he succeeds," Aron notes, because "then he will no longer be necessary." Aron's view of the Algerian dilemma has all along been that it is an extraordinary crisis that could perhaps only be handled effectively by a hero on horseback, but that its solution might then render the leader superfluous...
...Lady Godiva had cantered through Soho last week, she would have been too late. A stripper on horseback has already been signed to work London's "Naughty Mile." The district heaves with a surfeit of female flesh. After years of popularity abroad, the English nude has at last come into her own at home...
Died. Sara Delano ("Sally") Roosevelt, 13, daughter of F.D.R.'s only Republican son, Manhattan Investment Broker John; of an intracranial hemorrhage, after a horseback spill one day and a fall while hiking the next day at a girls' camp; near Utica...