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...difficult to conclude that the bitter feeling most Texans have against them is due to what happened over 100 years ago, combined with present-day ignorance and prejudice...
Imaginations had long since found release in popular, illustrated broadsides. The tradition of this imagerie populaire, passed on by Geneva cartoonist Rudolph Topffer, was rekindled by Dore. His little-known little kings of Russia, emerging from the same folk sources as Otto Soglow's present-day Little King and Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse, have a verve and gaiety that is hard to reconcile with his brooding plates for the classics...
André Marty is one of the most colorful figures in present-day Algiers. His past includes leadership of the French Black Sea Fleet Mutiny in 1919, a consequent death sentence (later reprieved), a stormy career in the French Chamber of Deputies, a key command in the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War, and a scorching place in the pages of Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. Of Marty in Spain, Author Hemingway wrote: "One of France's great modern revolutionary leaders . . . a large man, old and heavy . . . [who had] become with time, disappointment, bitterness...
...youthful look of present-day generals is due to their soldierly contours. Average age of the Army's generals (excluding retired officers returned to active duty) is 51. Average age of generals appointed from line branches of the Regular Army in World War I (as of Nov. 11, 1918) was 51 and one month...
...Attendance at West Point is a useful, but not necessary, requirement for promotion to star rank. Of the 971 general officers appointed from Regular Army Promotion List Branches (excluding retired officers on active duty) in this war, 437 (about 45%) are graduates of the Military Academy. Fifteen present-day generals are Annapolis men. (Example: Major General Lewis H. Brereton, Air Forces commander overseas...