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Black Mark Erased. Gottwald was an earthy, peasant type who liked his pipe and bawdy jokes as well as the bottle. Beneath this exterior, he concealed a vast store of political savvy and cunning. The son of a poor farmer, he was born in Dedice, Moravia, became a carpenter's apprentice, was drafted into Austria's World War I army, was wounded on the Russian front, and subsequently deserted. In 1920 he switched from the Socialists to the Communists, by 1926 was chairman of the party, and a member of Parliament three years later. In 1939 he fled...
...exterior is in keeping with the Business School's traditional colonial architecture, while the interior is modern, with artificial light and filtered...
...Liga (Champ Butler; Columbia). A spirited hillbilly song about a cigar-store Indian who hides his longings beneath a wooden exterior. In the back ground, a quartet grunts...
...Down. When Taylor took over the Metropolitan in 1940, the great museum needed a shakeup. The golden age of the great benefactors, like J. P. Morgan and Jacob Rogers, had filled it with treasures, but many trifles had accumulated as well, and the public was more familiar with its exterior than its inside. "My job," says Taylor, "was to try, without causing any palace revolutions, to look to the future rather than the past...
...unguarded moments, resembles Charlie Butterworth with a mustache. He might be the man the French lexicographers meant when they defined petit bourgeois in the dictionary-respectable, thrifty and discreet; at home with account books but uneasy with the great books; shrewd and commonsensical, and sometimes, underneath the humdrum exterior, imaginatively simple. He slipped into the premiership of France like a little-known guest emerging from behind the draperies into the babbling center of a Parisian literary salon...