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I would like to congratulate you on the splendid April 2 article on Ambassador Angus Ward, sometime U.S. Consul General in Kenya. Having had the pleasure of knowing him, I would like to say that he was one of the finest "genuine" gentlemen one could ever hope to meet, and...
As the ancient coronation ceremonies began in the courtyard of the ornate royal Palace of the Monkey God, the slight young King, in white jodhpurs and tunic, and his young Queen Devi, in a bright red sari, strolled casually in to take their places, cross-legged and barefoot, on white...
The Civil War came to the rescue. Sickles raised a brigade in New York, called it the "Excelsior," and poured his own money into it. Just as the brigade approached bankruptcy, the Union defeat at Bull Run made President Lincoln happy to put Sickles' volunteer army on the Federal...
Come April showers, August heat waves, fall fogs or winter blizzards, the trackmen pull on spikes and practice every day of the year, and always amid a gaggle of trainers. High-speed sprints, then intervals of jogging, then high-speed sprints, hour after hour, mile after mile, make up their...
To many of his colleagues in the U.S. Foreign Service, long-legged Angus Ward was always a bit of a trial. When Angus joined the service in 1925, after a varied career as a lumber salesman, army officer, exporter and timber evaluator for the Bureau of Internal Revenue, an Ivy...