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...Miss Belle Baruch, dark, slender eldest daughter of Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch: master of hounds of the Georgetown, S. C. Hunt, sailor and?like her sister Renee?an expert rifle shot, owner of a big racing and hunting stable at Pau, France; on her famed Arab jumper, Souriante III: the President's Cup at the Paris Horse Show from 119 contestants, most of them French cavalry officers or professional riders; for the second year in succession...
...Michelson's favorite self-description: "A sailor degenerated into a college professor...
...Michael Maus, the French Michel Souris, the Spaniards Miguel Ratonocito and Miguel Pericote, the Japanese Miki Kuchi. Although his Christian name might be understood as an affront to Irish dignity, he has been respectfully reviewed in the Irish Statesman by Poet-Painter George ("AE") Russell. Great lover, soldier, sailor, singer, toreador, tycoon, jockey, prizefighter, automobile racer, aviator, farmer, scholar, Mickey Mouse lives in a world in which space, time and the laws of physics are null. He can reach inside a bull's mouth, pull out his teeth and use them for castanets. He can lead a band...
...Terry Barberlit, onetime hobo, circus-pegger, doughboy, sailor, anarchist, con man, all-time sensationalist and wanderer of the world, was 56 and looked older until you got in a fight with him. Terry was resting from his labors by peddling snake oil medicine in country villages when he ran into Ruth, a young garage-owning widow with a viperish tongue. She liked him more than he liked her. She asked him over for a drink. When he left town next day she went with him. Terry had agreed to look after her for a year, because she wanted...
...word "uniform", it must be admitted, is something of a meaningless euphemism when applied to the combination of red sweaters, sailor hats, and the mixture of clean and soiled fiannel trousers which clothe Harvard's musicians, but there remains, nevertheless, considerable doubt as to whether any effort should be made to change this "uniform...