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...Russia's invasion of Finland and push to the west in general have cleared up any doubts he might have had as to who his enemies are in this war. There was no better person to whom to state his position than his old friend Poultney Bigelow of Malden-on-Hudson, N. Y., who used to romp with him in a German school when Poultney's father was U. S. Minister to France. No war could break their friendship, which has extended to their families (see cut), and every year Oldster Bigelow goes to visit Oldster Hohenzollern...
When Mahan's Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1783 appeared in 1890, British imperialists rated it an indispensable aid in wangling money from Parliament. Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, who was just beginning to swell, telegraphed to Journalist Poultney Bigelow: "I am just now not reading but devouring Captain Mahan's book. ... It is on board all my ships...
...83rd birthday, bewhiskered old Poultney Bigelow, friend of the former Kaiser and inveterate iconoclast who is strong for war, dictatorship, beards, boating and hickory wagons for hauling wood and geese, gave out a written "interview," in which he asked all the questions and answered them himself. Some answers: "Stop thinking-take a holiday. . . . To go naked is wholesome, especially for nervous women...
Weed-whiskered old Poultney Bigelow...
Well, many distinguished graduates have recorded their dissatisfaction with the education offered them by Yale: C. A. Bristed, Andrew D. White, W. W. Phelps, Poultney Bigelow, Owen Johnson. But still the old mother hustles along, dragging her rebellious children at her skirts. They kick her shins and bawl and pound her with their fists, but still she hustles along. See her broad back, her mighty arms and legs, and ample breasts that suckled those ungrateful brats. Her dress is torn, her hair is mussed, and sweat stands on her cheeks, "wrinkled deep in time". But there...