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...column, double-truck display, called it "a great battle picture"; so did Editor & Publisher, publication trade weekly. LIFE, pondering the picture, had grave qualms, finally printed it double-spread, but with a skeptical caption: ". . . In spite of the apparent approach of enemy planes . . . soldiers are still rid ing forward, not bothering to take cover. . . . Furthermore, none of the soldiers is looking at the bomb bursts [which] them selves are not behaving exactly the way bomb bursts usually behave...
...college he concludes that virtue has to be organized. At 29 he is Dr. Gideon Planish, Professor of Rhetoric in Kinnikinick College, Iowa. He wears a small brown beard and is ready to jettison his too-provincial mistress. Already expert at self-deception and hypocrisy, he does not get rid of Teckla for his own good, but for hers. Thinks Gideon: "It wouldn't be fair to take her off to New York and Washington and face those snobs and intriguers...
...said, "and I have been reading your press, particularly on French political matters. It seems you don't quite understand what it means to be occupied by the Boche. I hope-in fact I am sure-you never will, but French politics today means only one thing: get rid of the Boche, and we back the man we're most certain is going to do it. You should sit as I have for two years around tables plotting with Socialists, Communists, priests, extreme Rightists, extreme Leftists, employers, workers, all friends together with one aim-France's liberation...
...authentic eagleface of his predecessors. He was illiterate, and he bore the earthy name of Damasco Maldonado. But he had the power to look into the future and the past and the thoughts of men; he cured sick llamas and women & children, got rid of bad ghosts and made things tough for his enemies. In the small Aymara pueblos of the Altiplano and among the Indies who worked the copper mines near the Chilean and Peruvian borders, his name was spoken with reverence. On festive days thousands of Indians crowded Lake Titicaca's shores, watched in awe and admiration...
...self pushed on the stage in a wheelchair and conducted the performance while sitting. At one New York Philharmonic rehearsal he became so elated that he fell off the podium into the second violins. "Podiums," he remarked, on recovering himself, "are expressly designed as a conspiracy to get rid of conductors." Like every other conductor worthy of his salt, Sir Thomas has told noisy audiences to keep quiet-his phrase for it in Covent Garden was: "Shut...