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The prospect of peace was as diverse as the provinces of China (see map). Noodle-eating Northerners, the tall, rugged people of the Yellow River region, were going back to their cool villages and towns. In Peiping they would eat onions again, fondle walnuts in their palms, see the Temple...
He had been charging his first important account a measly $6,000 a year over & above expenses. For the rugged job ahead, he felt the city should pay nearer what some of his other clients (Sun Valley, Union Pacific, Coca Cola, Anaconda Copper, etc.) pay. He asked for $25,000...
Dirty Tricks Department. At 62, Halsey is still rugged, and in better health than he was three years ago. He rises at 0600, reads the overnight accumulation of dispatches while downing scalding coffee, and greets his staff at breakfast at a more comfortable hour with a grinning "Sit down, goddammit...
The theme of Frogner Park is nothing less than the birth, life and death of man. There are no monumental mementos of captains, kings and conquerors in the Vigeland cast of characters-just plain men, women & children. Massive males stagger under the weight of a heavy fountain-bowl; chubby children...
Rugged, cleft-chinned Bishop Wand was a brilliant student at Oxford (he took a first-class in theology) and a chaplain in World War I. For eleven years, he was a tutor at Sarum Theological College; then he was recalled to Oxford as dean of Oriel College. In 1934, he...