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Dogs Do Not. There are those who would argue that Author Sitwell starts with a crippling handicap when he admits: "One of my deficiencies is that I am not at all religious; and if the truth must be known, Christian neither by instinct nor inclination." At times along Journey's route, Sitwell leans toward the hope that a soul does exist, but he can never be sure who-if anyone-has one. He is certain that dogs do not have souls, and it is thinkable that God might have been hatched from an egg. As for man: "It might...
...Competition Animal. Ever since his birth in the Cevennes Mountains of southern France, Jacques Soustelle has been what the French call "a competition animal." Born with a double handicap-his family was poor and of France's Protestant minority-Soustelle early decided that "I had to succeed, and quick." With the encouragement of his mother (who at 70 recently retired from work) and his mechanic stepfather, he won a lycee scholarship at eight, relentlessly mastered Greek, Latin, English and mathematics, at 20 placed first in philosophy among 250 candidates for France's highest scholastic competition...
...Slasher. Sprinting quarter horses over dirt tracks around the Southwest, Ussery learned to get a horse away fast at the start. By 16 he was ready for the thoroughbreds,, drove his first mount to victory in the 1951 Thanksgiving Handicap in New Orleans. Within months Ussery was a big-time jockey, with a reputation as a slasher who bulled his way through the field like a fullback. Ussery used the whip so much that some jockeys hated to mount the horse he had ridden because the animal tended to sulk. Not until last year, when he was set down...
...there a Senate contest in 1960. Di Salle acknowledged that Kennedy was well liked in the state (he has made speeches in all major cities, and polls show him out ahead as the favorite 1960 Democrat). Also, it was obvious that Kennedy's Catholicism would be no handicap in Ohio, since Mike Di Salle and U.S. Senator and longtime (1945-56) Governor Frank Lausche, both Catholics, have rolled up big majorities in the past...
...bachelor until 42, Quesada married Mrs. Kate Pulitzer Putman, daughter of the late St. Louis Post-Dispatch Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, in 1946, now has four children. For relaxation, he plays golf (handicap: 9) or tennis. But most of his time is spent in his office on the third floor of a converted hospital across from Washington's Corcoran Art Gallery, where he logs twelve hours a day. He works standing up, telephone to his ear, or prowls back and forth between his desk and work table. His friends insist that he tries to do too much himself, but General...