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Brigadier General A. C. Dalton is 60 years old. Square-jawed and weather-beaten by many years of gallant army service (D. S. M.), his frame illy accords with an alpaca suit. He received what shipping experience he possesses during 1917-18 in the Transport Service...
...Smith. Boston lawyer Smith, lauded and feted a fortnight ago by effusively grateful Hungarians (TIME, July 5) made the retort courteous and gallant last week by returning to the Hungarian Government a cheque for $100,000 which was tendered him as his well-earned salary for two years of unremittent labor. Premier Count Stephen Bethlen of Hungary declared himself unable to find words in which to praise fitly such generosity from a man known to be far from rich. Straightway the cheque was deposited as "The Jeremiah Smith Hungarian Scholarship Fund." Every year two Hungarian students will travel memorially...
Seligson's win crowns a gallant two day fight made in conjunction with his teammate Shields. Outnumbered three to one by entries from other individual schools the two Columbia Grammar experts put up a good fight and scored ten points between them, enough to put their school in third place...
...Gilbert Frankau, with an old Etonian necktie,* a charming manner with ladies, a gallant War record and a resolute hatred for Socialism. His utterances in the U. S. arent the late British strike were clarion calls to the banner of Premier Baldwin and gave the definite impression that he, Frankau, was one of Baldwin's most important political colleagues and counselors...
...That hypothesis cannot be supported by a single hair. Burnsides got the name from the gallant General Ambrose E. Burnside, a Civil War hero, who wore that kind of whiskers...