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...Cutten has always loved discipline and self-denial. (Himself a rugged example to his students, he has never in his life worn an overcoat, at 67 still braves the bitterest weather in his indoor clothes.) Also on occasion he has denounced doctors, philanthropists, relief, Social Security, because they assist in the "suicide of civilization" by coddling the unfit. Of the Declaration of Independence theory that "all men are created equal," Dr. Cutten humphs: "If it were true, there could never be a winner in a foot race...
...wedlock, Rembrandt moved to dingy quarters over a ghetto junk shop, and continued to paint more intensely than ever. When his son, whom he idolized, died in 1668, aged but upright Painter Rembrandt stumped in proud sorrow to the graveyard, dressed in his best: a moth-eaten, fur-lined overcoat spattered with paint...
...picture of the late Leon Trotsky, a red flag, stacks of books and pamphlets by Trotsky, Lenin, Marx. These could be considered as determining the defendants' state of mind ruled Judge Matthew M. Joyce. Said he: "In his early days Hitler wandered around in a greasy old overcoat and was belittled." Government witnesses, most of them faded or redyed Trotskyites, declared that...
...Tristan & Isolde, missed when he said he was New York City's 99th mayor (correct: 103rd, counting acting mayors). Encyclopedia and $25 went to Questioner Maury Maverick, ex-Mayor of San Antonio. Sunny Los Angeles' Mayor Fletcher Bowron turned up in sunny Miami bundled up in an overcoat and a smug grin. Michigan's Governor Murray Van Wagoner signed up for rhumba lessons. His abstemious predecessor, Luren D. Dickinson, 82, announced that if he got "a call from God" he would run for office again. "I've heard nothing from Heaven yet," he added...
...around the training room, has been treating injured Crimson athletes since 1931. When a gridiron warrior doesn't get on his feet after a play during one of the Varsity games and a tense silence hushes the anxious crowds, Gus is the business-like doctor in a long black overcoat who hurries out on the field ot examine the injury...