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...hardy enough to grow in the drought-made deserts of the Midwest. To head the party he chose a Russian-born mystic who has spent most of his 59 years painting 3,000 pictures and preaching to three continents the gospel of Unifying Humanity Through Art. He was grave, goat-bearded Nicholas Konstantin Roerich, honorary president of Manhattan's Roerich Museum. What made him valuable to Secretary Wallace was that from 1924 to 1929 he painted his way through Central Asia, is an authority on its lands and flora...
...Nova Scotia, Scot Willis McPhee left his house bright & early one morning bent on swapping his rusty 40.40 rifle for what he could get. Dark & late that night Scot Willis McPhee returned with a Mauser rifle, an eight-day clock, a pair of rubber boots, a yellow cat, a goat great with...
...Cadet Richardson of Gibson Island, Md., trim, erect, redhaired, marched forward his classmates jumped up, whooped, hallooed, tossed their caps in the air, heartily thwacked his back as he returned. He was, for the day, the scapegoat on whom all their sins were piled. They knew, too, that "Goat" Richardson had hung on for his commission iong after a lesser man would have given up. He entered the Academy in July 1928, was dropped a year later for deficiency in French. By August he was ready to take and pass another examination, be readmitted. In 1931 he fell...
...service, he had many a defender. His friends made the point that purchases by direct negotiation, while il legal, were the rule rather than the exception in government aircraft procurements because most specifications could be best met by one contractor; hinted that "Benny" Foulois was being "made the goat" by higher officers responsible for the weakness of the Air Corps. But all Washington knew it was a far cry from the report of a Congressional sub-committee and the actual removal of the Chief of Air Corps...
...Class of 1909 awarded a series of honorary degrees to members of their class. Officiating at these ceremonies was the loading athlete of the class, Rand, who had conceived clever epigrams for the recipients. He awarded one to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt '09 on the basis of being the "democratic goat getter," but the real reason was because he brought back Pola Negri from his trip of exploration last year...