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Bright-faced German boys in tanks, at torpedo tubes, squinting over bombsights, had finally done Experience's job. The British had learned their lesson bloodily, at firsthand, in the broad sunlight of the day Mahan had foretold. The sun rises later in the U. S. But there too at last Mahan's day was dawning...
Artist Leigh learned his nature firsthand, trekking up & down the Western deserts with his paints and brushes in his knapsack. In 1926 he went with the American Museum of Natural History's late ace taxidermist Carl Ethan Akeley on an expedition into East Africa to paint museum backdrops. Today, hale and high (6 ft. 2 in.) at 74, he lives comfortably in a trophy-laden Manhattan studio, helps his wife, Ethel Traphagen, collect costumes for the Traphagen School of Fashion, which she owns...
...last summer General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell called three of his officers into the Cairo headquarters of the Imperial Army of the Nile. He was worried about rumored Italian plans to slice in through the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan from southeastern Libya. But to get firsthand accounts of Italian troop and supply dispositions meant a hazardous trek of over 1,000 miles across rocky, dune-ribbed desert. The three men before him jumped at the job. For ten years they had made a sport of just such traveling, spending their vacations exploring the Sahara. Within six weeks they had trained...
...does it mean that they are particularly vulnerable to meaningless vehemence and invective. . . . The Latin American cannot be expected to react exactly as we do because he lacks 1) firsthand experience of the sustained and healthy functioning of democracy, 2) the fundamental mistrust of Hitler's word, fed in North Americans by the feeling of intimacy with the tragedies of Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, etc., given us by our press, our great magazines, our radio, which after all have no true counterpart even in the wealthiest metropolitan centres [in South America], and 3) sentiment or love of any kind...
...taking this trip in order to keep up with what is happening in Latin America," Professor Haring announced yesterday. "I haven't been down for three years and I feel that unless I actually see the situation firsthand I lose touch with...