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...Lombroso's work L'Homme Criminel was a textbook. One day the professor read to us from the book certain characteristics by which born criminals could be identified, some of which were "profusion of hair on the head, sparsity of hair on the face, and lean jaws constantly in motion," whereupon one of the students called out, "You have just described my wife!" Frank Jost Newson Edmonton, Alta...
...family to the U.S. and kept them hopping from way station to way station. Young Wilfrid, the eternal transfer student, felt like a newspaper tossed on a lawn. Not even when he was struck by polio at the age of 1 3 did his parents slow down their perpetual motion in the service of the Lord...
Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy set in motion a fascinating drama of incarnations--a tragedy of myth transmittal attempted as dynastic policy. Each of his sons, by turns, was to enact the dream. When Joseph Kennedy Jr. was killed, then Jack Kennedy became the incarnation. Then Bobby Kennedy. Ultimately, Ted Kennedy took up the burden, by then almost too heavy and bitter to bear...
...When the ropes hit their mark, Knox dashes out, yanks the tail and upends the bawling animal. Before the dust can rise, Knox is on his knees, pinning a front leg back to immobilize the calf. Other cowpunchers burn the brand, vaccinate the animal and castrate it. No wasted motion, no unnecessary energy...
Branding, like ballet, becomes poetry in motion, a slick sequence of moves that turn a mere job into an art form. Whether breaking broncs or chasing wild cows across cedar-infested slopes, punching cows demands courage, precision and a certain élan. Ross Knox understands the cowboy's art. So does fellow Poet Georgie Sicking...