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...looks like a man-about-town-a very leisurely, prosperous sort of town. Looking at his slick, prematurely grey hair, his invariably dapper dress, or the dapper water colors he paints for relaxation, nobody would think he had ever been an alderman. Still less does he seem a hard-bitten politico with a good liberal record who has beaten Tammany in seven out of eight elections. Oldest of nine children, son of a wealthy New Yorker, he was in the Navy in World War I for six seasick months, transferred to the Army, fought in France, met the French girl...
...Aragonese peasant whose wife claimed kinship to a tattered strain of impoverished Spanish nobility, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was born in the bedraggled, hard-bitten village of Fuendetodos, near Saragossa, in 1746. He grew into barrel-chested manhood, fighting ruffians and bulls with equal recklessness and gusto. Brawling and wenching his way to Rome, he studied there the shimmering rococo canvases of Tiepolo and Francesco de Guardi, returned to Madrid to work his way up as court painter to Spain's dissolute Charles...
...When," asked General Maxime Weygand once in a moment of deep exasperation, "will the old man [Pétain] stop sleeping with that charcoal dealer from Chateldon [Laval]?" The distrust of the hard-bitten little soldier for the swarthy politician of the white tie was deep-seated and violent. It led many people in many capitals to speculate that Weygand might desert Vichy for Great Britain. Last week North American Newspaper Alliance's chubby, energetic Jay Allen flew to Marrakech, Morocco, scooped the world's press on Weygand's present political intentions: "I cannot give you answers...
Rookie Martin's batting and running won him an outfielder's job and the Cardinals the National League pennant. That fall Pepper Martin won the World Series from the Athletics almost by himself. He made twelve hits, stole five bases, moved hard-bitten old John McGraw to exclaim: "The greatest World Series player I ever saw." Though Pepper Martin never again reached his 1931 World Series form, he became the most fabulous figure in baseball. They called him "The Wild Horse of the Osage." He was the loudest and toughest of the Cardinals' famed Gashouse Gang. Once...
...Masters. The ripest work of this school is Sherwood Anderson's. His meandering, mystical tales present the U. S. small town as a dimpling surface above dark fathoms of frustrated desires. He wrote of a typical female in Winesburg, Ohio: "At night she dreamed that he had bitten into her body and that his jaws were dripping." Of a typical male: "Tricked, by Gad, that's what I was, tricked by life and made a fool...