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...most painful experience of his youth, his four years as an artillery engineer for the Kaiser, has become with time part nightmare and part joke. He was, he says, wounded twice at the front: once by the recoil of a gun and once by the kick of a mule. It was "four years of nonsense," and when peace came he was ready to move on to France, to the U.S. (during World War II) and, lately, back to France...
...afternoon femmitation." used his wife's byline in "memos" to himself that scorned "the newcomer to news ranks," who was "running around like she's just misplaced Rock Hudson." Maxine kept a disdainful public silence. "I'm like the fellow who was kicked by the mule," she said in private. "I just consider the source and forget...
...harelip, either drank up or gave away everything he made. He once traded a painting for a necktie, recently gave another for a pair of long-toed shoes. The transaction, he said, was "completely fair: they're like the shoes Charlie Chaplin used to wear." "A Beheaded Mule." Guignard owes his life-and much of his present success -to a dedicated physician named Santiago Americano Freire, who nursed him back to health from a nearly fatal case of the DTs. Dr. Americano got his patient a state pension of $100 a month, arranged most of his exhibitions, which...
...wringing their hands, as he walked past the pictures. Schubert, who believes that it is necessary to "police modernists," disapproved of Guignard's skyscraper cross, spear-bearing soldiers ("creatures from Mars") and the bloodied imprint of Christ's visage on Veronica's cloth ("a beheaded mule"). Then he delivered his decision: "I will tell the cardinal that these paintings can be consecrated...
...gold medal at Squaw Valley), West Germany and Sweden. A Canadian himself, Coach Armstrong coolly cites the lesson he learned during his career as a National Hockey League player: "The key to success in any athletics is recruiting. You can't make a race horse out of a mule. I simply go where the best hockey is played-in western Canada-and look for players with good brains...