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...peasant. Georgia is one of Asia's few Christian countries ("I too am an Asiatic," Stalin greeted the Japanese Foreign Minister in 1941). So Stalin went to a Jesuit seminary to become a priest. But he soon left. At an age (15) when Winston Churchill was at Harrow and Franklin Roosevelt at Groton, young Joseph Djugashvili was organizing revolutionary cells...
...Irish peer, Harrow and Sandhurst bred, Alexander epitomizes Britain's professional officer class. Cultured, athletic, politely indifferent to publicity, he has been content to fight two wars, let the honors fall where they may. Field Marshal (then General) Sir Bernard L. Montgomery won the glory of North Africa, but behind his brilliant tactics was the brilliant strategy of his chief-Alexander. In Italy, too, Alexander stayed in the background, let Generals Mark W. Clark of the Fifth and Sir Oliver Leese of the Eighth win the headlines in the long march up the peninsula of Italy...
...With their $300 savings they bought a pair of flap-eared mules, a cookstove, a cream separator and a linoleum square. With $300 more borrowed from the Farmers State Bank they bought two brood sows for $20, and an assortment of antique farm equipment (including a harrow picked...
Harold went to Harrow and Sandhurst (Britain's West Point), became a dashing young blade, an indifferent student, a topflight track athlete. In 1914, he won the Irish mile (6,721 ft.) in 4 min. 33 sec. He chose to start his military career in the Irish Guards rather than the Coldstream Guards which his grandfather had commanded. In World War I he went over the top 30 times, was wounded twice, became a lieutenant colonel and a battalion commander...
...twelve, at Harrow, he fell 30 feet off a bridge, broke his shoulder instead of his head. At 21, in Cuba, he walked untouched through a rain of bullets. At 23, in India, he jumped from boat to dock, misjudged, smasl ed again his once-broken right shoulder (on this occasion he is reported to have uttered "most unChristian oaths...