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...flashes constantly exploding in his aching head, whereas Gauguin, whose head throbbed with the same painful lunacy, sought to escape from it in his work. His best pictures have the dark rich colors of Persian rugs. They are as carefully composed as Chinese paintings. Despite the difficulty of obtaining raw materials in the South Seas, he produced more pictures than van Gogh. Many of Gauguin's later pictures were done on prepared flour bags...
...give much this week to find another like him. Son of a Maryland tobacco planter whose Quaker precepts made him free his slaves and put his sons to work, Johns Hopkins got no schooling after he was 12. He started his fortune by exchanging groceries and farm products for raw Maryland whiskey, selling the whiskey as "Hopkins' Best." He increased it by shrewd business ventures and hard-fisted money-lending. Because his only love was a first cousin, he never married. He became president of a bank, a leader in insurance, shipping and warehousing, the largest individual stockholder...
...were so much raw meat, politicians in & out of Washington last week sank their teeth in the strange case of Major General Johnson Hagood who, for speaking flippantly of WPA, was fortnight ago summarily relieved of his command of the Eighth Corps Area and ordered to his home (TIME, March...
...late years General Hagood has advocated a number of unorthodox military ideas. By simplification of army training he claimed that in wartime raw recruits, "taught to shoot instead of to salute," could be made into efficient fighting men in three weeks or less. By reducing paper work and simplifying the War Department, he asserted, the U. S. could have a much more efficient army for much less money. In case of war he advocated sending only the National Guard to the front, ordering all regulars to the rear to train recruits-the system practiced by the Confederate Army and advocated...
...prelude to the 40 days of Lent, spent by all Penitentes in bloody emulation of the sufferings of Christ. One by one the brothers bowed before a Sangrador who with a jagged piece of glass gouged crisscrosses on their backs. The penitents would keep their wounds open and raw until Easter, often by rubbing rock salt in them...