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...were members of the Cape police. Last year Professor Raymond Arthur Dart of the University of Witwatersrand, discoverer of the celebrated fossil apeman named Australopithecus, queried the district police about the Baboon Boy. There was no written record of his finding, and the man who had caught him, Lance Sergeant Charles Holsen, had died; but another policeman who knew Holsen remembered his story, and this checked with the version previously given by the Baboon Boy himself. Psychologist John Porter Foley Jr. of George Washington University assembled the details of the case for the American Journal of Psychology, published a summary...
...life served as a Kosack, that is in an irregular cavalry, but upon serving his two years, eight months stretch in a regular cavalry, in Nijegorodsni dragoons, he re-enlisted. I don't remember for how many times. Eventually he served in Persia in 1914-17 as a sergeant-major of esquadron 4, same regiment, quartered in Hamadan, Persia. . . . When Budenny eventually was heard from, he was a head of a regular cavalry outfit, nominally of course: you admit that Reds eventually had to send him to the school at the age of 46 years, and we back...
...know much about General Baron Mannerheim, but I am sure a real old general is more fit for commanding an army than an ex-sergeant-major, but of course the latter is only a figurehead...
...thousand men of the British Expeditionary Force, on leave from France, debarked at a south coast port in England. Rapidly, methodically, the khaki-clad figures handed their green passbooks to a slim officer in the uniform of the Royal Navy, swarmed past him to board a train. An unhurrying sergeant looked up and snapped into startled attention. The naval officer was George VI, "filling in" as a ticket collector to learn how it was done...
England's first serious soldier-poet was discovered last week by Beverley Nichols in the person of a sergeant of the Royal Artillery, a onetime Etonian named A. H. V. Longman. But his Old Age, published in a regimental magazine, will hardly encourage anybody to enlist. Its theme is the disillusion and precocious soul-hardening of Europe's young men. The poem...