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...herds and parks and at 22 began teaching philosophy and history. The sparse facts of his career form a clear pattern climaxing in his brief period of power as chief magistrate of Chung-tu when he was 52 and when, so potent was his example that "he was the idol of the people and flew in songs through their mouths." When Confucius became Chief Minister to Duke Ting of Lu, his theory of government was applied on a large scale-perhaps to discredit it, for "Rotten wood cannot be carved." The young Duke was led away from Confucian precepts...
...Example. As the 5-ft.-10-in. "runt" in a family of six-footers, Ted Timberlake took plenty of lumps growing up. Pat was his special idol in athletics. Because Pat had been a javelin thrower, Ted manfully tossed the steel-tipped spear around. Pat had been a star blocking back. Ted played one season, lost another with injuries, wound up warming the bench...
...Government must conquer a superstition, smash a major industry. The superstition dates centuries before Cortés. This fall as in hundreds of years past, many a peon still trudged miles up into the mountains to participate in a bibulous ritual on the site where Ome Tochtli's idol once stood. As an industry, pulque employes a million and a half persons, covers a million acres of land...
...soon Caruso's full-blooded Italian outpouring had won his severest critics. For nearly 20 years he was a world idol. His greatest performances have never since been equaled. He netted as much as $300,000 a year from the Met and fabulous recording royalties estimated as high as $3,000,000. He gave away huge sums to public charities and private friends...
...concluded: "I have no personal military ambitions whatsoever. ..." "Bataan Speaking." Douglas MacArthur is a remote, proud man. After Bataan he became the idol of two countries -the U.S. and Australia. Admirers in the U.S. talked of him loudly as a candidate for President. The very least they expected was that he would be given overall command of the Pacific war. MacArthur, the country's best known four-star general, expected that too. With his sense of drama he saw himself marching back through the Philippines. People who telephoned his headquarters in Australia were startled by the greeting: "Hello, Bataan...