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Only when he departed for new duty in the Middle East did he reveal his secret. He had been getting his dope from his batman, a coal black Xosa named Filemon. Filemon had been a tribal weather prophet of renown. He had joined the army only after an embarrassment involving a long-range weather forecast, a perversely unexpected dry spell, and his tribe's 1940 corn crop...
...Vice Admiral and given honorary titles in the Army and the R.A.F. Combined Operations was then a stepchild, frowned on by Colonel Blimps, struggling along in hand-me-downs. Smooth Lord Louis made drastic changes, used his influence to get materiel and facilities, lifted Combined Operations to glamor and renown...
First Blood. In June of 1918, 14 months after the U.S. entered World War I, Terry Allen was a captain, a passionate and accomplished poloist, a drinker and bachelor of considerable renown, a cavalryman without a war where horses were required. In that month he went to France, where he soon got his first infantry command. At a school for infantry officers in France. Allen arrived the day before a class was to graduate. He lined up with that class. Said the commandant, passing out certificates: "I don't remember you in this class...
Hitler Wept. Pola has married only twice.** She wraps her romances in mystery by carefully concealing her fiancés' names, carefully dropping hints as to their nationalities, professions, wealth, renown. Rich and renowned men to whom Pola has been rumored engaged: Chicago Millionaire Harold F. McCormick, British Millionaire Lieut. Commander Glen Kid-ston, Cinema idols Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin. Most renowned man with whom Pola's name has been linked is Adolf Hitler (TIME, April 26, 1937). This most sensational of rumors about Pola hit the headlines over half of Europe, is said to have made...
When Paul-César Helleu was young, in the '70s, he ran away from a comfortable Paris home, studied at the Beaux Arts, made friends with Sargent. He painted cathedral interiors and scenes of Versailles in autumn, reached his greatest renown as an etcher of pretty women in all seasons. He led a pleasant, quasi-boulevardier life, was happy with his wife in a satiny apartment near the Bois de Boulogne...