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Holy Terror. Artur Rodzinski is a professional, in the strongest sense of the word: he is a professed musician. He regards music as his calling, and himself as consecrated to it. His devotion to his calling is selfless-though his selflessness is sometimes as hard to take as another man's selfishness...
...Priest. Other modern dictators had been men so evil that their personalities obscured the inherent evil of dictatorship. Franco was a barrack-room bully, Mussolini a strutting iiar, Hitler a ranting sadist, and Stalin a bloody-minded professor of the art of power. But Salazar was a virtuous man-selfless, intelligent, efficient. If despotism could be benevolent, Salazar's character was ideal material for "the good dictator." Born at Santa Comba Dao, not far from Europe's second oldest university, in a typical pink-walled Portuguese Village, he had made such good marks in grade school that...
Some termite species cultivate fungi, feeding their young upon them. If enemies attack the colony, soldier termites rush to repel them. In relation to the colony, individual termites are utterly selfless. They never loaf, never sleep. They are ceaselessly busy in community service. Except for the king & queen, they never fall in love. There is no individualism in a termite colony...
...heroes have made more money or become better known than warm and selfless Major Victor Joppolo, central character of Novelist John Hersey's best-selling A Bell for Adano. Few are now more obscure than ex-Lieut. Colonel Frank E. Toscani, the prototype of Joppolo in real life...
Last week this "selfless and sustained devotion to duty" brought for "Hammy" Gray the British Empire's highest award for valor-the Victoria Cross. He was Canada's 13th V.C. and the sixth from British Columbia...