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Copper-Bellied Corpse. The American folk who emerge from this lore are robust, daredevil, imaginative, fond of broad humor, tender love, great deeds, crude, rude, sometimes full of noble sentiment, sometimes intolerant. They glorify outlaws (Jesse James, Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid), poke fun at woodsmen (Mike Fink, Davy Crockett), sanctify Johnny Appleseed. The U.S. gift for tall talk is flaunted in Sven, the Hundred Proof Irish man, and speeches by General Buncombe ("Sir, we want elbow room - the continent, the whole continent - and nothing but the continent"). The U.S. talent for epithet is flaunted...
...into Mr. OCR's new boss, William Yandell Elliott, is big (6 ft. 2 in.), barrel-chested, fond of using his booming voice. Born in Tennessee, he went to Vanderbilt University, left it to serve abroad in World War I as a field artillery lieutenant. Later, as a Rhodes scholar, he distinguished himself by 1) earning a D. Phil.,* 2) exploding a giant firecracker behind the dignified dean of Balliol College. He taught at the University of California, later moved to Harvard as associate professor of government. Trying his hand at a textbook for his classes, he found that...
...fluttery little woman fond of long white gowns, Chaminade gave her recitals before banks of potted palms. She claimed that the soul of Beethoven once appeared outside her window in the form of a flame and burned briskly while she played the piano. In middle age she married a Marseilles music publisher named Carbonnel, who died five years later. A Philadelphia reviewer once mistakenly noted that she had never been married. "She is called Mme. Chaminade," he explained, "because she is wedded...
...Russian pressure, adamant in demanding the abdication of little King Vittorio Emanuele III. Into this deadlock stepped the King's heir, six-foot Umberto, Prince of Piedmont, with an offer to become his father's keeper while the old King kept the crown. By no means fond of Umberto but for want of anything better, anti-Fascist leaders were in a mood to accept...
Willkie began poorly in Richland Center, deep in dairyland. Farmers gave up their Saturday night shopping to jam 2,400 strong into a red-brick high school. They sat apathetic through a long farm speech, delivered without fire. Then Willkie pushed on, to Neenah, Oshkosh, Fond du Lac. His party, including 25 correspondents, rolled along snow-covered countryside in seven shiny rented 1942 Dodges. Veteran Scripps-Howard Newsman Tom Stokes was reminded of a "glamorous Broadway star going back to the five-a-day ... or a major-league pitcher back to the minors. ... All the trappings of the big time...