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...ceilings, acres of desolation through which the mildest wind blows a mournful plaint. Through the ruins to the East Gate Market come those who try to sell their few belongings to buy food. So, one day this week, came a stooped old man with dull eyes and a wispy beard, dressed in a soiled grey robe and a bedraggled Panama hat. Under his arm he carried a thick, paper-covered Bible, in Korean characters. He asked 3,000 won (50? at Army exchange rates) for the Bible. "I have had that Bible for ten years. I don't want...
...days later the villagers of Gissac, in Aveyron,noticed the arrival of a strange new doctor and his wife at the small local Catholic hospital. The priests seemed to treat Dr. André Viaud, a spent-looking retired practitioner wearing the beginnings of a scraggly beard, with unusual respect. When a man stopped him on a walk and asked him to look at some peculiar red splotches on his daughter's face, Dr. Viaud failed to oblige. Instead, he hurried back to the hospital and sent one of the other doctors. He even avoided a chat with...
Doing some research on 12th Century England, Antiquarian Charles R. Beard turned up a footnote on King Richard I. The lion-hearted king had stomach ulcers. His favored treatment: lots of strong hot wine...
...year-old lay leader of the Catholics in his village, was ordered to pluck out his own beard strand by strand. When this process seemed too slow, his torturers burned it off, searing his face with a torch. After severe beatings, "the judge asked Li: 'Will you still be a Christian and act as head of the community?' He answered simply: 'As long as I breathe.' The judge gestured to a soldier near by, and Li Wan-fu was shot through the head...
...Paris. He stayed at the Ritz, filled his suite there with treasures. Victorious Franco liked Royalist Lazaro no better than had the Republicans, used his Madrid house as a police headquarters. Lazaro spent World War II in Manhattan. Art dealers got to know the trim little man with the beard of a Biblical patriarch. He was still voraciously snapping up old masters...