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Jiddu Krishnamurti (TIME, Sept. 6, 1926, May 9, 1927) far from the flats of India where he had been born, far from the paunchy side of famed 80-year-old Dr. Annie Besant who had raised him to be "a new world leader," was standing upon the hilltop, chanting a Vedic hymn; he carried a flaming torch which, with a graceful stoop, he applied to a pile of carefully prepared faggots. The faggots went up in a cloud of smoke and flame; Krish-namurti's disciples, of whom a thousand sat upon the slope of the hill, drew a breath...
...indolent, ill-natured Negroes move slowly about their business. It would be incredible that wars had ever been waged under that muffling sky, as heavy as a curtain, that a splendid emperor had ruled the ruinous country- were it not for the fortress which still stands up on the hilltop, a black fist against the sky, the citadel of Christophe, the monument of a man born no one knows where, mysteriously named, a slave and a king, whose enemies defeated him. There is a rumor that Christophe with his own hands, at night, buried gold in the huge walls...
...some charming alchemy in nature, those places are often the most lovely where men have most suffered. George Washington marched his men to Valley Forge, now a vast well-kept park, along roads that were rutted with ice. The tents went up along the hilltop and the soldiers built their fires in the dark. Night after night the wind blew down like a white wolf, blew the snow up over the small starry fires and howled at Washington's army from a cold, tremendous sky. Soldiers have been brave before and since; Washington's men heard the wind...
Otter Creek put Rutland, Vt., yards under water. One woman died of fright. Relatives of the late Governor Percival Wood Clement were marooned in their hilltop mansion. Railway trackbeds were so deranged they may not function again until next spring...
Having given its curious readers the parsley, the Boston Traveler last week revealed the meat. The aviator's name is Harry N. Atwood. For the last five years, he has been drawing up plans in his hilltop home in Monson, Mass., for a multi-motored, heavier-than-air ship capable of carrying 100 passengers across the Atlantic in less than 48 hours...