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...memorial in Braille's honor. Meanwhile, the citizens of Coupvray performed a ceremony of their own. They unearthed Braille's remains, and, keeping a relic for themselves, sent the coffin to Paris. There, escorted by a column of blind men, each armed with a white cane, Braille's body was finally placed where Frenchmen felt it rightfully belonged-in the Panthéon, France's Westminster Abbey...
Over the years, thousands of students have known him as a hearty man who hated automobiles (he often drove a horse & buggy), carried a cane, and wore a hearing aid that sputtered so much he was affectionately called "the Buzzer." But in class, students forgot everything except the Buzzer's fiery way of teaching. Sometimes he stamped his feet, sometimes he brandished his cane, sometimes he even hopped up on a desk in the heat of describing a battle. Once, drenched by the rain, he whisked off his suit and conducted the class in his underwear...
...evening. By midnight he is fully awake, and his best hours run on from then till 5 or 6. Around the circus he wears riding clothes, but towards evening he assumes a somber elegance. In New York he goes on the town dressed like a career diplomat, sporting a cane or tightly rolled umbrella, black hat in the Anthony Eden style, gloves carried but not worn and suits cut in the English fashion...
...them. The son of a poor farmer of mixed blood, he was born in 1901, while his country was still under U.S. occupation, at the eastern sugar town of Banes. Quitting Banes' Quaker School at twelve, he worked as a tailor's apprentice, bartender, barber, banana picker, cane cutter and railroad hand. At 20 he joined the Army. To other soldiers, he was virtually a literary type: there was always a book or magazine under the pillow of his bunk. When he got the chance, he studied shorthand and became a sergeant-stenographer, handling secret papers, working with...
Batista was still a sergeant at 30, as the great depression settled down on Cuba. Sugar then sold for ½? a pound, banks foreclosed on planters, cane cutters roamed the island seeking a few weeks' seasonal work at 20? for a dawn-to-dark day. Those were the years of the tyrannous President Machado and his infamous gangs of gunmen hired to repress the people by terror and torture. Rebellion was in the air. Students led strikes, and the ABC revolutionary society hurled bombs at Machado's hated police. President Roosevelt sent Sumner Welles to help ease Machado...