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...Named for gallant Count Bernardo de Galvez (1746-86), Spanish governor of Louisiana and viceroy of Mexico. His motto, now Galveston's: Yo solo (I alone...
...Ypres, he crawled out under the wire and brought back a wounded sergeant under a hail of German fire. He won Britain's Military Cross. Part of his subsequent appeal to the British electorate stems from Eden's status as one of "the lost generation"-those gallant young schoolboys whom fate and the nostalgic poetry of Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen transformed into tragic legend. Years later, in Berlin, Eden was to refight the grim Battle of the Somme on the back of a menu provided by an Austrian-born corporal named Hitler, who had served opposite Eden...
...Segula) and trained by 80-year-old Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, dean of American trackmen, Nashua went to Hialeah boasting a fine record as a two-year-old-six victories in eight starts-and a promising contender for the Kentucky Derby. Mr. Fitz, already a winner of three Derbys (Gallant Fox, 1930; Omaha, 1935; Johnstown, 1939), has brought him along slowly. Petted and pampered, watched and worried over like a prince, Nashua may work the kinks out of his legs in one more race before the Flamingo, but the Flamingo is the big race on his schedule, and he is ready...
...esteeming himself offended, demands apologies or reparations." Editor Servan-Schreiber, complaining gloomily that "this is all such 19th century stuff," found a pair of seconds, one of them his onetime commanding officer in the Free French Air Force. Actually, duels (with pistols), though often banned in France's gallant and tempestuous history, are by no means uncommon even in present-day France, particularly with newspaper editors, theater critics and existentialist painters. But the Foreign Minister's involvement threatened a government scandal...
...mystified as to how such a man can drop his guard so low and then invite the world to retaliate. Senator Givhan's statements against the Negroes can and should be taken as an insult to the virtue of the white women of the South . . . When are the gallant Southern gentlemen going to learn that the color of the skin is no criteria of the purity of the heart? Isn't it about time that this misguided section of the country quit dragging its feet and pay more than mere lip service to the ideals of our Constitution...