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A Working Gentleman. In Ben Robertson's reverential portraits his elders are stirring American archetypes. His Grandfather Bowen fought from First Manassas to Appomattox. He was "a Southern gentleman" who "worked in the fields all his life along with the rest of the hands. On weekdays except Saturdays he...
Stalingrad's fate depended upon the success of such fighters. There were no natural defenses. Between the Don and Volga elbows, a strip from 45 to 80 miles wide, the plain rises imperceptibly from the west to east until it reaches about 240 ft. above sea level, then falls...
Peter Gray lost his right arm (well above the elbow) in an automobile accident when he was six. Despite his handicap, he was leading his league last week in both batting (.393) and fielding (1.000). True, he had played only 16 games (he broke his collarbone diving for a shoestring...
Tobe talked himself into the radio business on a shoestring after the last war, made $68,000 in 1927 on condensers. But that year an engineer showed him how a filter would eliminate static—and since then Tobe hasn't been interested in anything else. "Everybody was making condensers...
> Rogue's Gallery, the funniest story, tells of Miss Sargent's experiences as assistant to a Mr. Sheer, a borrowed-shoestring art dealer.