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Self-effacing Field Marshal Alexander is a smooth politician ("90% of my job in the Mediterranean was politics"), a passable amateur oil painter and, at 60, still an avid outdoorsman (formerly football, track and cricket, now mostly shooting, skiing and fishing). He was born Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, the third son of the Fourth Earl of Caledon. After Harrow and Sandhurst, he wore "the brightest Sam Browne and boots in the British army," fought in World War I, served in India between the wars...
...Headsman." Meanwhile, Stevenson's paternal grandfather was busy campaigning against Lincoln. Grandfather Adlai Ewing Stevenson, who walked into Illinois beside a wagon in 1852, was also a lawyer, but an avid Democrat. As Grover Cleveland's First Assistant Postmaster General, he became known as "the headsman" when he swept some 40,000 Republican postmasters off the payroll. In Cleveland's second term, he was Vice President. Lewis Green Stevenson, his son, was Illinois' secretary of state in 1914-16. (Another relative in politics: Vice President Alben Barkley, whose grandmother was Grandfather Adlai's first cousin...
Gehrmann and Wilt consequently are a promoter's dream. They always run a good mile race, and the public loves it. Last Saturday, the 17th installment of their series of mile races took place in the Boston Garden to the delight of 13,000 avid track fans. The race went perfectly according to script. Wilt let one of the lesser known runners set the pace, moved out in front after the quarter mark, and then tried to run away from Gehrmann. He failed just as he had failed the night before in Philadelphia, and 15 out of 16 times during...
Whenever some special creative ability is vital to Russia, as in the fields of science and war, it is imported from the West. The Soviet Union is an avid subscriber to technical magazines the world over. Of the four Russian types of car, two are Packards. The atom bomb and the MIG fighter came from the West-if only from Eastern Germany...
Coach Jaakko Mikkola was not happy over the meet. He was, however, inclined to dismiss most of the trouble as more first meet jitters. Nevertheless, it wasn't easy to dismiss lightly several glaring weaknesses that made even the most avid Crimson track fan hold a rein on his enthusiasm...