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...this full-dress biography, the late French Critic Gérard Jean-Aubry, editor of Conrad's letters, has taken soundings along the well-charted course of the Conrad legend. The legend is well known??? the young Polish exile who began to learn English from Lowestoft sailors at 21, became a ship's master at 29, voyaged to the Caribbean and the China Seas, and who, at 36, took to the shore and, despite poverty, neglect and illness, made himself a master novelist. It is all true. Jean- Aubry, who spent 20 years writing this book, fills in the blank spaces...
...newshawks. All are sworn to die for their country. General Haptemikael himself is a veteran of Adowa. Already in Ogaden province was one of Ethiopia's most effective generals, the former Turkish Commander Wahib Pasha. Long exiled by Turkey's Dictator Kemal, "Old Eagle Beak," as he is known??? to U. S. correspondents, still clings to his Ottoman fez and grey-green World War uniform. In his charge was one of Ethiopia's prides, a fleet of 20 U. S. motor trucks used to transport black troopers across the desert to rivers and water holes that they must soon...
Alfonso's third move was to let it be known???unofficially?that he would give up his own rights to the throne, not in favor of his easy bleeding firstborn, the Prince of the Asturias, nor in favor of his deaf-mute second son Don Jaime, but in favor of his third son, 17-year-old Don Juan Carlos, a cadet last week in the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Devonshire...
...these men be known as U. S. musicians would be known??? "laborers in the field of music"?and automatically there will be restriction upon their entrance. Restaurants, jazz orchestras, show producers will have to fall back upon the 138,000 union musicians. They will not be able to lure the beggared fiddlers of Europe to the U. S. with wages that appear fabulous to the foreigner though equal to only half the current scale...
...Robinson. But the dark horse need not be one of the favorite sons, such a one for example, as John W. Davis, Senator Carter Glass or even Senator Copeland. Since McAdoo will have the largest block of votes, a most significant thing to know?if it can be known???is: "Who will be McAdoo's second choice, if McAdoo himself cannot...