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When he came back from Cuba he had $6,300, three-fourths of all the money in the regiment. "He had one big advantage," his aide recalled. "He could look sad and beautiful and humble while he held four of a kind, timidly and carefully betting against other people's full houses...
Captain, Judge. In the Legislature he stayed year after year, Lincolnian in frame and profile, quiet, serious, steady, until the Spanish-American War. From around Celina he recruited a company of mountaineers, joined the Fourth Tennessee Regiment-dashing in his long Custer mustaches, big rolled hat. To Cuba they went too late to fight. Captain Cord Hull now turned his attention to poker to kill time...
...honorary colonel in chief of the Oxfordshire Yeomanry (antitank regiment) King George VI appointed his mother, Queen Mary...
Wounded somewhere in England was Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, second in command of a battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment, by a fellow officer who peppered His Grace by mistake for a rabbit...
...training in the First Corps Cadets, an Anti-Aircraft Coast Artillery Regiment, prepares a man for a commission in one of the most inodern branches of the service. The equipment is the very latest issued. (For a better picture of the equipment and training, I refer those interested to an article, "Can They Bomb Us" by Fletcher Pratt which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post of December...