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Died. Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale, 87, legendary last of an 18th-Century pattern - the swashbuckling, sporting peer; in Oakham, Rutland, England. A vigorous black sheep of one of Britain's noblest families, Lord Lonsdale was born at ugly, Gothic, ancestral Lowther Castle (described by myopic Wordsworth as "that majestic pile"), educated at Eton where he was flogged 32 times. He soon tired of this, joined a circus, toured Switzerland for a year and a half as an acrobat and trick rider, is said to have punched cows in Wyoming, explored Alaska, been either a bandit...
...jazz history does not depend on Fats Waller. Back in the early '205, when Jimmie made countless pianola rolls for the old Q.R.S. company, his powerful perforations were idolized by the most genuine, undiluted barrelhouse pianists and their admirers. Today he is regarded among them generally as the noblest professor of them...
Tested in Battle. To some it seems unfair that single men who were drafted last year have opportunities beyond this year's crop of father-soldiers, but the exigencies of war rarely make for absolute fairness. The noblest method of becoming an officer is still open to all soldiers who face the enemy: commission in battle. Many officers were "made" on Guadalcanal and in New Guinea.* Like the machines of war (see p. 69), not all men of war can stand the test of battle. For those who meet the test of leadership in battle, there are still ample...
...general in whose opinion the noblest productions of the Occident are ice cream and bedpans...
...best part of 20 years the youth of Britain and America have been taught that war was evil, which is true, and that it would never come again, which has been proved false. . . . The youth of Germany, of Japan and Italy have been taught that aggressive war is the noblest duty of the citizen. . . . This naturally has placed us . . . at a disadvantage which only time, courage and untiring exertion can correct...