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Jean Antoine Watteau was born to a Flemish coppersmith in 1684 in the town of Valenciennes. At 14 Jean Antoine began sulking to make his derisive father apprentice him to the best local painter. When he was 17, his master died and Watteau legged it for Paris. Starving, homeless, he...
In 1878 the Lake Forest cattle firm of Anderson & Findlay imported from Scotland the first herd of pure-bred Aberdeen Angus. A few years before, a white-bearded Scottish landowner named William McCombie had, by a process of delicate selectivity, developed the short-legged, short-necked, squat, hornless, sleek-black...
Died. Arthur R. Seyferlich, 64, Fire Commissioner of Chicago; of diabetic gangrene following a leg infection; in a Chicago hospital. Fortnight ago doctors told Seyferlich a leg amputation was necessary to save his life. Cried he: "A one-legged fireman is no fireman at all. I'll die before you...
On the playing fields of Eton, where Englishmen may or may not have won the World War, bandy-legged little Prajadhipok got some of the guts which make him a remarkable King of Siam. Later as a cadet in the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, the future Possessor of the...
At the initiation of the Hasty Pudding Club two Boston newscameramen set up their tripods in the Harvard Yard, snapped Sophomore Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. wearing brassiere and panties over the costume of a Pudding initiate. On the edge of a crowd of students Freshman John Roosevelt, youngest son of...