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Julian C. Levi also hung up a pair of foils, a mask, and a brass French fireman's helmet, trophy of the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, whose disdain for the pompiers of the city is expressed in their marching song...
...National Opposition which includes the Fascists and Dr. Alfred Hugenberg's Nationalists, vote-splitting seemed the best strategy. They attempted in vain to collaborate on a candidate. For their candidate the Nationalists and their Steel Helmet faction then chose Colonel Theodore Düsterberg, Deputy Chairman of the Stahlhelm...
...season on the sidelines, he has learned how to plunge straight through a line instead of shifting through a broken field, how to shake off tacklers instead of dodging them, how to throw forward passes that sometimes travel 60 yd. Stocky, black-haired, grey-eyed, McEver wears a helmet that always falls off. Tennessee footballers remember only once when he took time out-on a rainy day, when his trousers fell off as well as his headguard. Left end Merlon Derry-berry of Columbus, Tenn. has the highest scholastic average of any Tennessee student for the last three years...
...Brooklyn home James Dennis Wyber, 14. played soldier, used the roof as a fort, used his room as an arsenal for the storage of a rifle, an airgun, ammunition, a trench helmet, bayonets. One day James Dennis Wyber missed some things, suspected an enemy foraging party. To his roof-fort he climbed, waited until Alexander Annunciato, 9, began to climb to the enemy fortress-a garage roof. Soldier Annunciato got three companions, prepared to take the Wyber fort. Soldier Wyber fired a warning shot, hit Soldier Annunciato in the back, wounded him severely...
...London at $10,000 apiece. Otto Hermann Kahn, Andrew William Mellon, William Wallace Atterbury are among the U. S. businessmen who traveled to London to be limned by the little Irishman. During the War, British authorities pinned the gold crowns of a major on his shoulders, clapped a tin helmet on his head and sent him to the front to do sketches of the troops and large oil portraits of the generals. It was this series of War pictures that won him his knighthood in 1918. But beside the successful portrait painter there was another Billy Orpen. His soul revolted...