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...piece of flypaper. Goofy was also a dog, but with more human attributes, who introduced each of his maundering reflections with a delicate hiccup. He starred in a series of "how to" films in which he lamentably embarked on the study of every sport from football to horseback riding. After Mickey, the most famous character was, of course, that choleric, put-upon, slap-stuck Donald Duck, easily the most ridiculously funny fellow ever put on film...
...occurred one of the rare appearances of the hero in history, was lifted above herself by the uncomplicated conscience of her King." The going was tough for the Danes when the Nazis occupied the country on April 9, 1940. Next morning the distressed Danes saw their King Christian on horseback, riding as he always did through the streets of Copenhagen, disdainfully ignoring the German soldiers. The surge of morale produced by this simple act was incalculable. Later that year, when Christian celebrated his 70th birthday, a small badge bearing his initials on the background of the Danish flag was struck...
...roughly divided into three types: Europe's chairman-of-the-board king, who presides over his country but is not its chief executive officer; the tribal king of Africa and the Middle East, who most of the time still really leads and still does it from horseback; and the god king of Asia, whose divinity is fading but whose power persists and most closely resembles the old notion of heaven-touched royalty...
...Heinz offered its soup buyers a chance to enter an archery contest in which the first 1,066 winners would be rewarded with Kenwood Chef food mixers and Arrow shirts. And, in ads boosting its Neo-Medrone Acne Lotion, the Upjohn pharmaceutical company captioned a drawing of William on horseback as follows: "Who conquered William the Conqueror? No one. But he still worried a lot. About his acne. It was unconquerable...
...Boss," as he is known to his employees, spends ten or more hours a day in his Frankfurt office, decides everything down to the price of a handkerchief. Just about his only diversion is horseback riding, which he does so well that he won the world dressage championship in Bern last summer. Although the firm's shares are sold publicly-and will be listed this week on German stock exchanges-Neckermann and his family own 51.8% of the stock, and there are no other big shareholders...