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...Orleans, was adopted by Merchant Henry Stanley, who died without leaving him a penny. During the Civil War young Stanley made the curious record of serving in both the Confederate and Union Armies. the Union Navy. Captured (as a Confederate) at Shiloh, he was offered freedom if he would enlist in the Union Army. He enlisted, came down with dysentery, was discharged as unfit for further service, and ended the war in the Navy. Discovering a gift for journalism, he put it to work, finally took the eye of James Gordon Bennett, then No.1 U. S. newspaperman, editor...
...failed as a banker, was living apart from his family as superintendent of Louisiana Military Academy. He liked the South, Southerners liked him. Though he was no abolitionist, and thought war between the States "all folly, madness, a crime against civilization," he refused a Southern command, went North to enlist. A colonel at the tragi-comedy of Bull Run, he chevied his men so relentlessly they cursed him but kept better discipline than most. His bad-tempered sternness got him the name of "Old Pills"; it was a long time before his men began calling him "Uncle Billy...
Excessively tall, sardonic and adventurous is the King of Denmark's cousin, Prince Aage, socially famed for his discovery that "Paris nightclub champagne tastes exactly like licking a dusty window pane." Last spring Aage, weary of Paris, was permitted by the French Government to re-enlist in their blood-&-sandy Foreign Legion, regaining his former rank of captain (TIME, June 27). Last week Danish newspapers excitedly printed a letter from the royal Legionnaire. For once in his life world-weary Aage was aroused, indignant...
Once a year Austrian recruiting offices open, vacancies in the Austrian Army are filled. Under the Treaty of St. Germain each recruit must enlist for twelve long years...
Shaw's ambitions are two: to become a writer on his own merits (he has tried in vain to get his work accepted under a pseudonym); to make a parachute jump ("and I don't care what the result is either"). His enlistment expires on March 11, 1935. Then he may either re-enlist or settle in his Somerset cottage and write for a living?£4 a week, in his opinion; "far too much trouble to work for more...