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...should be. Remount is bossed by an ex-cavalryman, tall, tweedy Colonel Edwin Noel Hardy of Tennessee. Devout horseman, he glories in the 14,000 foals a year that Remount stallions are siring-a value of $1.500,000 at a cost of $80,000. In his Washington office he points proudly to a wall map stuck full of red pins. It is no tactical map; it is full of horse interest. Says West Pointer Hardy, "Wherever you see a pin, suh, theah stands a stallion...
...assembled psychiatrists Dr. Shatzky told how the books had escaped the Nazi bonfire. After Freud fled to Britain, a Nazi official, who was also an ardent Freudian, turned the library over to a bookseller, warned him not to use Freud's name in advertising, lest more devout Nazis seize and destroy the books...
Domenikos Theotokopoulos didn't like the Inquisition. But he was a devout Catholic, and Toledo's faded, invalid nobles, Quixotic bishops and hagridden monks were pigments for his palette. Himself a mystic, he painted the tortured, visionary aspirations of his subjects, seared the flesh further from their hollow cheeks, elongated their bodies till they looked like trembling candle flames, lit like flickering shadows in the glow of the Inquisition. The best painter in all Spain, Theotokopoulos became wealthy, got himself a 24-room palace, a beautiful wife named Doña Jerónima de las Cuevas...
Clarence Schock is short, stocky and devout, looks like a Pennsylvania Dutch Dr. Dafoe. Fifty-three years ago he started an oil business with his father in Mt. Joy, near Lancaster, Pa. Now Schock Independent Oil Co. has 14 wholesale plants and a dozen gasoline service stations, is valued...
Lord Lothian was indeed ill; he was dying. In the big, red-brick Embassy in Washington the Ambassador, a devout Christian Scientist, lay suffering the final ravages of uremic poisoning that to his faith was real only to the material world, unreal to the world of the spirit. Since his return to the U. S. from London three weeks before, the hearty, ruddy-cheeked Ambassador had gone out little. But sometimes he would ask old friends in for brief, quiet talk, of no immediate relation to war and his work, as if wanting to reassure himself that they were still...