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...twelve, in school and at home in Breslau, he was shaped strictly for membership in his father's regiment, the crack Seventh Grenadiers of Liegnitz, Silesia, whose honorary chiefs were the Kaiser and the Tsar. Schoolmates recall him as a witty wisecracker, gay, with a talent for dramatics. But he stuck to soldiering faithfully, gained his lieutenancy in time for World War I. By bravery at Longwy and the Meuse, by luck at Verdun, he rose and survived to become a staff officer under Count Rüdiger von der Goltz, who in 1918 was sent to help Baron...
...Sears, Roebuck (in sales), but losing money. Last year Montgomery Ward was over three-fourths as big as Sears, had a record gross of $474,900,000, a record net of $27,000,000. To help Montgomery Ward in this famous comeback, Sewell Avery hired top merchandising talent from other jobs : Walter Hoving from R. H. Macy, Frank M. Folsom from Hale Bros. in California, Raymond H. Fogler from W. T. Grant, many another. At Montgomery Ward, they were known as Avery Men. Now they are anything...
...compliments to her brilliant talk, magnetism, energy. Complicating these virtues were her ugliness, aggressiveness, radicalism, sexual neurosis. Like all her biographers, Author Wade tries hard to riddle Hawthorne's characterization, subtlest and most devastating of all. "She was," said Hawthorne, "a great humbug-of course with much talent and moral reality, or else she could have never been so great a humbug...
THIS LAND Is OURS-Louis Zara-Houghton Mifflin ($2.75). By pure bulk of fodder this 776-page narrative of the Revolutionary frontier will satisfy munchers of romance as much as its mixture of admirable material and thoroughly uninspired talent will disappoint critics. In a Conestoga wagon, young Andrew Benton crosses the wild Alleghenies, gets into practically everything out there from the 1760s on, up to and including the last Indian war dance at Chicago...
...that some of the men had attained a "more than adequate degree of proficiency in the handling of their mediums." I owe those men an apology and plead guilty to self-inflicted charges of gross understatement. The oils, water-colors, and drawings which form the collection reveal more genuine talent than has been sent in any recent exhibit of contemporary...