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What Became of Gustaf. Baron Mannerheim has almost nothing in common with the average Finn except a highly developed individualism. The Finns came to their country from east of the Volga. They were trappers, woodsmen and farmers, people who never had much and could take a lot of punishment, who, though their country has been ruled by both Sweden and Russia, were never subdued by anybody. The first Mannerheim of record was a Swedish merchant named Marheim, of Dutch or German descent, who died in 1667. His grandson picked up a title and his son, who was named Carl Erik...
...French Revolution. Sent to Mill Grove, near Philadelphia, in 1803, he quickly learned to hunt, to observe wild life, to make friends with farmers. Tall, strong, impetuous, farsighted, he was an accomplished painter who had studied under Jacques Louis David in Paris, but remained at ease with tough woodsmen and trappers. In 1808 he married a pretty, well-born English girl, soon after failed at a variety of business ventures in New York City, Louisville, Henderson, Ky. He could do sleight-of-hand tricks, was a dead shot and a good fighter, claimed Daniel Boone as his friend. Wandering down...
...home stretch, he praised Tasmanian woodsmen for sawing through a 6 ft. 4 in. block of wood in 31 sec., beamed at Sydney's effort to outdo Melbourne's hospitality with a portrait of himself in fireworks 70 ft. high, and helped New South Walesmen round up 300 kangaroos...
...control more seats in the State Senate than populous Providence. In his zeal for this reform one local Democratic candidate referred to the villagers as "skunkhunters." A cry of rage swept the State. Meetings were held to which the villagers came by thousands leading tame skunks, dressed like back woodsmen, intent on making "skunkhunting" a title of honor. Felix Hebert hoped to be re-elected to the U. S. Senate, not as a Republican, not as a passionate music lover, but as a skunkhunter. Nonetheless Rhode Island turned to a onetime polo player and yachtsman, the present husband of George...
Loyally Bishop Meisser's flock stuck by him. Fortnight ago he went out to a mountain village to preach. Eight hundred hulking woodsmen filled the pockets of their leather breeches with stones and dared Nazi Storm Troopers to interfere. Then last week the whisper was passed about Munich: "Go to the Mattiaskirche on Thursday evening. Bishop Meisser will have something...