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Wilfred McDonald, 31, a jug-eared Liberal known as "Bucko" when he played hockey (1930s) for the Detroit Red Wings. He won in Parry Sound, Ontario...
Displaying a small white flag with a red cross on it, five men last week took a rowboat across the Elbe River to U.S. positions at Magdeburg. Out onto the shore stepped a jug-eared, thin-faced man in a carefully tailored Wehrmacht officer's uniform. He identified himself as Lieut. General Kurt Dittmar, "Mouthpiece of the Wehrmacht"-the highest ranking, most objective and (outside Germany) most seriously regarded war commentator on the German radio...
...might see Lionel Johnson come out very drunk from the Café Royal, and hail the first passing perambulator. Santayana met this young poet at Oxford. Johnson looked 16, was small, pale, with small, sunken, blinking eyes, sensitive mouth, pale brown hair, and rebellious ideas. He kept a jug of whiskey on the table between two books-Leaves of Grass and Les Fleurs du Mai-and planned to become a Catholic as soon as he was of age. He became an Irish rebel instead. When Santayana saw him ten years later, he was a tragic spectacle. Johnson still looked very...
...finished St. Bernard's Parochial School at 15, and his mother wanted him to go to high school. But John had other ideas and quietly stuck to them: he started driving a truck for Gaburo's Laundry. He was big and dark and handsome, except for his jug ears, and he was everybody's friend. He was also restless. At 18 he joined the Army, won a sweater in a Golden Gloves boxing tournament, in due time he was shipped off to the Philippines...
...femininity." Said the ads: FROU FROU BECOMES YOU. In every big U.S. city, black (and transparent) nighties revealed the intimate mechanics of window dummies. Everywhere, hundred-dollar handbags were stacked in bargain-counter disarray. Perfume was a preferred item. Despite staggering price tags ($1,000 foi a 72-oz. jug of Worth's Dans la Nuit), it sold like patent medicine. Customers reached for absurdly priced costume jewelry as eagerly as pygmy tribesmen bartering for trade beads...