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...warlike Lulua reacted with spears, knives and sharpened sticks, killing hundreds of Baluba, burning their huts and carrying off their women. Only Belgian armed intervention, coupled with the mass removal of tens of thousands of Baluba to another region, stopped the blood bath...
...greater the adversary, the rougher the battle. His most venomous attacks, though, were reserved for women. Marriage, Barnes often said, was just a cheap and wholesome substitute for prostitution. He delighted in bullying female employees into tears, embarrassed one young secretary by dictating letters to her from his steam bath, interspersing his correspondence with commands to fetch towels and turn on the shower for him. When Edith Powell, art critic for the Philadelphia Public Ledger, had some mild reservations about the Soutines in a rare public exhibit of Barnes's paintings, he wrote her a thunderous letter stating that...
...personal vendettas than in reconstructing their disrupted state. Fortnight ago a cabal of personal enemies and ambitious junior officers forced the resignation of Army Chief of Staff General Song Yo Chan, the man primarily responsible for pressuring ex-President Syngman Rhee out of office without a nationwide blood bath. This week the vengeance-seekers caught up with Rhee himself...
...brew, downed two bottles while getting his change. Former teammates remember being unable to get into his hotel room because he had stuffed towels under the door, turned on the shower's hot water full blast, and while resting on his bed, converted the place into a steam bath in an effort to sweat off a few of his 250 lbs. But the amiable giant who furnishes the stuff for such stories is no modern Babe Ruth: he is Stephen Thomas Bilko, 31, one of major-league baseball's most fascinating flops...
...travelers of the 1770s who stopped off at the Black Bear Inn on their way from London to Bath, the future Sir Thomas was already a celebrity at the age of ten. Sooner or later, his father, the innkeeper, would bring forth the boy and ask: "Would you like him to recite from the poets or take your portrait?" In 1779 Sir Joshua Reynolds reportedly called the boy "the most promising genius I have ever met." By the time he was 17, he was on his way to becoming one of the most sought-after portrait painters of all time...