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...Guidon of Life. Chagall, too, was to suffer. In September 1944, Bella came down with a strep throat while summering in upstate New York. He rushed her to a hospital in the Adirondacks, where, hampered by his fragmentary English, they were turned away with the excuse that the hour was too late. The next day she died. It took him nine months to begin painting again; in the meantime, he helped his daughter translate Bella's own memoirs of Russia, Burning Lights. Then, in 1945, he had recovered enough to begin work on the sets and costumes for Stravinsky...
Bathroom Phone. Last week Harry Truman walked from his office to the barbershop of Frank Spina, who served as guidon for Captain Harry of Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, in World War I. Truman was especially careful about his haircut; he had an appointment in Chicago next week, and he wanted to look his best...
...staff of the Adelphi College Guidon, like other undergraduate newspaper idealists, thought that a little article on the President's wife on April Fools' edition might improve public relations on the campus. (The staff of the Oracle, the college year book, of which I was also a member had forecast whisperingly, but quite correctly, that the Guidon was headed for the biggest "news" of the year). The edition was really hot. The college authorities begged the post office not to accept or deliver that edition. One of the girls, a senior who was alleged to have given a finishing touch...
...competitive drill among the six Army platoons will precede the review. The winning group will receive a streamer to attach to the unit guidon for next year. The batteries with the best academic and disciplinary ratings will also receive streamers...
...record amount of experience to fill this movie with fine, familiar technicolor scenes. His cavalry troop, its shiny horses steaming in the cold, jogs out on morning patrol; it moves patiently along a ridge against the jostling clouds of a thunderstorm. It deploys behind its red-and-gold guidon for a charge, plays taps when it buries its dead, and sings a lot of good cavalry songs. Ford's officers sit straight in the saddle, and their gold fore-and-aft shoulder bars gleam in the sun. His two lieutenants (one a wealthy Easterner) are in love with one girl...