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...philosophy-essentially a profound pessimism about the human situation and a stoic sense of tragedy-grew out of war. Like many a child of the times, he was born twice, once in Oak Park, Ill., on July 21, 1899, and a second time during World War I at Fossalta on the Italian Piave on July 8, 1918. At Fossalta, Hemingway, who had switched from ambulance driving to join the Italian infantry, was so badly wounded in a burst of shellfire that he felt life slip from his body, "like you'd pull a silk handkerchief out of a pocket...
...length to half a mile and its box office to some $2,000,000 a year. Born in Lebanon and a tumbler from the age of three, the improbable Hamid was nine years old when, in Marseille, he met the first two Americans he had ever seen: Annie Oak ley and William F. ("Buffalo Bill") Cody. Hamid joined Cody's traveling circus, shined the great man's boots, kept his highballs full of ice, worshiped him, and has been a lifelong abstainer because he watched Buffalo Bill dissolve in booze...
...Tiago lives in a drafty, 200-year-old palace of masonry and wood with huge oak doors and walls four feet thick, "to keep out the Protestants." It boasts "a complete, live collection of every known tropical insect." On the office wall he keeps a picture of a pre-eminent Catholic churchman whom he calls "Johnny." He admits that he lives more like a hermit than a bishop. He has no servants, eats lunch out with priests or nuns, and for dinner has only a bowl of oatmeal-followed sometimes by a cigar and a glass of sherry...
...Polo Association rates players, in ascending order of ability, from zero to ten goals. Only two men have the top, ten-goal rating: Cecil Smith, 57, a former cowpuncher now with the Hinsdale, Ill., Oak Brook club; and Bob Skene, who plays with teams in San Mateo and Menlo Park, Calif...
Rivaling Jackie Kennedy for the headlines were the two generals: blond, flint-eyed Maurice Challe, 55, onetime commander of the French army in Algeria, and balding, tight-lipped Andre Zeller, 63. In an ornate, oak-paneled courtroom of the ancient Palais de Justice, both went on trial for leading the short-lived April rebellion against France and Charles de Gaulle...