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...MAKING or A HERO-Nicholas Ostrovski-Dutton ($2.50). Fast-moving autobiographical novel about a Red cavalryman in the Russian civil war; the author dictated the story while blind and paralyzed, died soon after...
...desertion of the Democratic Party and for denouncing President Roosevelt, George Peek received a quick rebuke from his former partner Hugh Johnson. The crusty old cavalryman and columnist, who, like Peek, left the New Deal after bickering with Braintrusters, stepped up to a microphone in Philadelphia two evenings later, declared President Roosevelt had broken no agricultural promises, declared Peek's attack "the most unfair yet launched at the President...
...world's greatest living cavalryman sat reading in his high-ceilinged London study one noon last week. Suddenly the book slid from his hands, his chin sagged to his chest and Field Marshal Sir Edmund Hynman Allenby, first Viscount Allenby of Megiddo* and of Felixstowe, was dead...
...Magnin & Co. was Mary Ann Magnin's husband Isaac, who emigrated from The Netherlands to the U. S. just before the Civil War, fought as a Confederate cavalryman, turned pushcart peddler in New Orleans. With some savings, he went to London to look for his long-lost father, found his bride in the search. Isaac Magnin then set himself up in London as a wood carver and gilder in a picture-framing shop. Late in the 1870's, the Magnin's set out for San Francisco. There Mrs. Magnin picked a shop between the business and residential...
...class admired the heady way he played football, offered to coach him through. Malin Craig's progress after he left the Academy should give hope to West Point's dullards. He saw active service in Cuba, in the Boxer Rebellion, in the Philippine Pacification. Son of a cavalryman, with a boyhood spent on the Western Plains, he made up for a lack of scholarship with plenty of resource, winning thanks from the entire Chinese population of San Francisco for stowing away and keeping straight a squalling horde of Chinese babies after the 1906 earthquake. During...