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...PATRIOT'S PROGRESS?Henry Wil-liamson?Button...
...Patriot's Progress is the story of John Bullock, young London clerk who joined up soon after war was declared, to fight for King & Country. In graphic, impressionistic, sometimes onomatopoetic prose, Author Williamson tells what happened to Private Bullock, from his raptured enlistment and training on Salisbury Plain to the attack beyond Ypres in 1917 when a shell left him with only one more leg to give his King & Country. "Then his heart instead of finishing its beat and pausing to beat again swelled out its beat into an ear-bursting agony and great lurid light that leapt...
...enthusiasm, inquisitiveness, missionary spirit have made him one of the most versatile writers (in subject-matter) of his century. Son of Professional Cricketer Joseph Wells, he was educated as a biologist, has written on religion, science, history, politics, international relations, socialism, tactics, education, philosophy. Onetime socialist, onetime passionate patriot, he is always promulgating some new social religion. Short, stout, bright-eyed, he has a short-clipped mustache, a high voice, coughs apologetically as he talks. In a vote on "Britain's best brains" tabulated last week by The Spectator, Mr. Wells ranked sixth, preceded (in order) by George Bernard...
...Adamses came to Massachusetts from England about 1636, for more than 100 years were good but unremarkable citizens. Then John Adams was born. Educated for the ministry, he became a lawyer, was soon outstanding among public men in Massachusetts. A patriot, like his distant cousin Sam Adams, he was one of Massachusetts' delegates to the first Continental Congress. He nominated Washington as Commander-in-Chief. He was sent to France as Commissioner, later to England as Minister. U. S. Vice President eight years, he succeeded Washington as President, was first occupant of the White House. When Thomas Jefferson...
Stalin and Hoover. If U. S. businessmen should refuse to sell Red Russia what she wants, gladly would British, German or even Japanese businessmen fill her orders. Christian, capitalist and patriot though he may be, the U. S. businessman has this perfect alibi far his traffic with the Reds...