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Then there are eyes, which are mostly an ordinary brown or blue. Sixteen claimed hazel, and 11 said their eyes were a fiery, mysterious green, while three favored languid, limpid grey. Age was probably the most scattered statistic. Although girls today can enlist from 49 down to 20, this batch was 20 to 40 and had birth certificates to prove it. Most were between...
...Bull received 50-odd years of public homage. Statesmen like Henry Clay, authors like William Dean Howells, Mark Twain and Thackeray basked in his companionship. Longfellow and Joaquin Miller wrote poems about him. Women begged for samples of his bath water. Sixteen-year-old Queen Isabella of Spain offered him a generalship in her army...
Travel-worn leather bags stood ready last week in a modest Manhattan apartment. Count Carlo Sforza, urbane, white-bearded, was about to begin a long trip home. Sixteen years ago he and his family were hounded into exile by Fascismo's bullyboys, who burned down their villa and might have murdered them. Now, at 70, Italy's distinguished liberal refugee had been granted Allied permission to go home...
Llewellyn has always been a little cryptic about himself. He likes to make remarks like "I have two birthdates, and the honor of choice between two birth places - London and St. David's in Pembrokeshire"; "At sixteen I was sent to Italy to learn hotel management, starting in the kitchen"; "I should describe the years up to 19 as turbulent. Realizing a need for discipline, I joined the ranks of H.M. Regular Army." But there is some biographical data Llewellyn does not hide...
C.E.D.'s bylaws provide that they may be published (though not at C.E.D. expense) even if C.E.D.'s board disagrees with them. Research has been put down for 40% of the $1,000,000 that C.E.D. is trying to collect from businessmen and corporations for the next sixteen months...