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...born blacksmith is the famous Desert Hawk." Yvonne De Carlo to Richard Greene in The Desert Hawk...
...Little Loyalty. Joseph William Martin Jr. was born in North Attleboro, Mass., in an era of horse trolleys and self-made men. Son of a Scots blacksmith and an Irish lass, he peddled papers, passed up Dartmouth in favor of reporting local news, and later bought the paper. Politics came naturally in that era, and Joe Martin was a natural. Stubby and combative, as quick with an infectious grin as with a roundhouse right, little Joe's big break came in 1925, when he entered the U.S. House of Representatives after the man who had beaten...
...visited cathedrals or read their contemporaries: Tennyson, who was writing about the knights of the Round Table, and Ruskin, who was writing about the ancient splendor and modern squalor in architecture. Morris got himself into an echoing rage when a suit of armor he had commissioned from the Oxford blacksmith (the better to pose for a picture) jammed its visor and locked the prophet within...
...emotion registered on the fighter's coffee-colored face. Blacksmith's arms folded across his chest, the giant looked impassively at his tubby little mentor and sighed: "Yessir, Mr. Benbow, yessir...
Fortunately for the Philippines, a hero arrived in the form of Ramon Magsaysay, a tall (5 ft. 11 in.), tough blacksmith's son from Zambales province, who took over as Defense Secretary in 1950. A principal backer in the Cabinet reshuffle: Freshman Congressman Ferdinand Marcos. Magsaysay tackled the Huks with double-barreled dynamism: his green-clad, rubber-booted troops rooted them out of the Luzon jungles and killed them without quarter; defectors were offered land in islands not infested by Huks. By 1954 Magsaysay had quelled the Huks, and won himself the presidency. Then in 1957, Magsaysay died...