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Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery carried a pair of worn boots into Hoby's Bootshop in London's West End on Friday, asked for repairs by "next Tuesday . . . I'll be needing them in Germany." Hoby's-recalling that Wellington wore his Hoby boots at Waterloo, that Nelson died in his at Trafalgar-broke its two-to-three-weeks-for-repairs rule, promised delivery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Just Deserts | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

...Author. Maxim Gorki (real name: Alexey Maximovitch Pyeshkoff) is 62, gaunt, wrinkled, hollow-eyed, with drooping moustaches. He wears: baggy trousers, blue workman's shirt, a blue sweater. A poor boy, he had to earn his own living when he was nine; he has been worker in a bootshop, apprentice to a mechanical draughtsman, cook's assistant, lawyer's clerk, tramp, laborer, baker. Once he tried to commit suicide; the bullet is still in his body. Though he took no part in the Revolution, for he believed the masses were not ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Smoldering Youth | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

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