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...Hard-Bitten Veterans. The Army of the Potomac was less of a mystery to Grant. He knew that a handful of bumbling leaders-from McDowell to Hooker -had given it a galloping inferiority complex about Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia. By 1864, not only morale but men were ebbing away as their enlistments came to an end. Yet Grant pinned his faith on hard-bitten veterans like the soldier who said: "They use a man here just the same as they do a turkey at a shooting match, fire at it all day and if they...
Facsimile of El Dorado. Clark finished his trip with a green-eyed American girl named Inez Pokorny, who was hunting gold and was stranded in Iquitos, too. Their quest almost ended prematurely one night when Clark was bitten by a poisonous snake, a nacanaca, and was only saved because his Indian paddlers went promptly to work with the native treatment: a brew of herbs injected near the wound by repeated jabs of a thorn...
...sensitive, spectacled youngster growing up in the same South Side slums as Studs and James Farrell himself. Earlier novels in the O'Neill saga, e.g., A World I Never Made, My Days of Anger, found young Danny seething with frustrations and a rage to leave the poor, brawl-bitten shanty Irish world of the O'Neills who bore him and the O'Flahertys who brought him up. In The Face of Time, Danny is five, too young to care about much except where the next ice cream cone is coming from...
When Colonel Frank Schwable, U.S.M.C., arrived in Washington last month, he promptly went around to pay his respects to Marine Commandant Lemuel Shepherd. Schwable never got past the front office; hard-bitten Lem Shepherd angrily refused to see him. Last week the Marine Corps announced that an investigation was under way in the case of Colonel Schwable, Annapolis man, regular marine of 24 years' outstanding service and the highest-ranking American P.W. in Korea to confess to the Communist fantasies of germ warfare...
...Survivor. In London, Mounted Policeman James J. Goss won a divorce on grounds of cruelty after he charged that his wife Janet had 1) hidden his cigarettes and newspapers, 2) frequently kicked and bitten him, 3) broken a pot on his head, 4) thrown a poker at him, 5) stuck a knife in his back...