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Returning to Germany, Corinth scandalized Munich with his sensual image ry. He painted slaughterhouse scenes, leering nymphs and popeyed Grafs with equal candor and caricature. He happily moved to Berlin to join the impressionist Secessionists, an art society that scorned the academy. Then in 1911, a near-fatal stroke reminded him of the dark side of delight...
...traveled more than 200,000 miles through the state, visited every one of the 102 counties at least once, and more than half of them several times. He has appeared at no fewer than 70 local fairs, attended more than 2,000 rallies, dinners and other functions. When Bar ry Goldwater turned up in Illinois last week, Percy was there to introduce him to a local audience, but took his leave as soon as he decently could...
...blood of the Argonne Forest. In the war's last big push, York was a corporal in Company G of the 82nd Division's 328th Infantry Regiment, perched atop Hill 223 on the front line at Châtel-Chéhéry. At 6:10 a.m., G Company was ordered to advance two miles and to seize a German-held rail point. Hidden in woods overlooking a valley, a German machine-gun battalion opened up on the company, killed most of its forward ranks...
...then pummeled him unmerci fully. Suddenly a young Negro bystander shouted, "The police are coming!" The boy who shouted, an 18-year-old Mississippian newly arrived in New York and identified by police only as "Larry," was simply trying to help Weiner by scaring away the gang. Later Lar ry said bitterly: "I'm scared of my life up here in New York. It's safer in Mississippi." In any event, his ruse worked and the gang fled. A dozen of them were arrested afterward and charged with crimes ranging from malicious mis chief to assault and robbery...
...right man for ev'ry...