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...time" to see them, and Fellow Muralist Diego Rivera was "too busy" painting some of his own in the National Palace (just across the street) to take a look. Biddle felt sure that an attack on his murals which appeared in the newspaper Excelsior, under the nom de plume "jurinto," was really written by Rivera. But Biddle, who felt that he had done something constructive, hoped that the Justices would be pleased...
Doris Duke ("Richest Girl in the World") Cromwell, of late an ink-dabbler, explained why in Rome: "I . . . feel definitely drawn to journalism as a means of self-expression." Hopeful of getting into professional ranks, she said: "At one point I thought I'd use a nom de plume but I reconsidered, because life is complicated enough...
Earlier, in his spare time, he had written fiction (mostly about crooked politicians), and also, under a nom de plume (A. V. Hendrick), the words for a song honoring Movie Queen Bebe Daniels (Bebe, Bebe, Bebe, Be Mine), whose father lived in Grand Rapids. Now he turned to sterner stuff. Alexander Hamilton had long been his hero; he wrote three books about him. (Lodge had also written a biography of Hamilton.) The books are largely forgotten, and Senator Vandenberg is glad they are. But the inscription in one is a characteristic example of how faithfully Vandenberg represented, as he still...
...resemblance between Pistol-Packing Patton of the lacquered helmet and Two-Gun Mosby (see cut), who rode to battle in a scarlet-lined cape, with a brilliant plume in his campaign hat, is no mere coincidence. Colonel Mosby lived until 1916. He was a friend of Patton's father, whose own father had died with his Confederate boots on in the Battle of Cedar Creek. Colonel Mosby was the boyhood idol of George Patton, who made up his mind at age seven that he was going to be a U.S. Army officer...
...bearing and behavior, small (125 lbs.), stooped Mosby resembled a cross between the Scarlet Pimpernel and Superman. Against the enemy his unvarying rule was to do what was least expected of him. When he rode, his cape "was turned back always in a flow of scarlet. A curling ostrich plume extended over his shoulder from a gray felt hat, and at each side hung a large Colt revolver, suspended in holsters well studded with brass." He was always kind to women & children...