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Further sales gave Gibson a chance to study first at the New York Art Student's League, later in Paris. There he acquired the technique he still has, the loose draughtsmanship of the late great Anders Zorn. While in Munich, just before the Spanish-American War, Artist Gibson received a commission for some weekly pictures. A bald nervous little German came around looking for a job. From that followed a long series remembered by all Gibsonians as "The Education of Mr. Pipp...
...diet dished out by earnest graduates of the neighboring normal school provides a noble share of the tragic humor in any democracy. It enthusiastically fosters huey longs and pink toothbrush, joe penners and streamlined bathtubs, athletes foot and esquire. It glories in the Sir Galahad account of the Spanish-American War, and it establishes as a natural limit to the study of civics, the skeleton of the local street-cleaning department...
Thousands of young men enlisted for the Spanish-American War, but young Henry Fletcher, a boy without a college education, a court reporter in his native Greencastle, Pa., got a place in Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders. Private Fletcher did not return to Greencastle from the glories of San Juan Hill, nor was his career buried when as a first lieutenant he sweated for two years through the jungles of the Philippines hunting down Aguinaldo. In 1902 his onetime commander, then in the White House, remembered him and sent him, as second secretary, to the U. S. Legation...
...Intelligence Department to London. He got the British Military Cross, came out a Captain. Back in New Mexico he helped organize the American Legion, served two years as department adjutant, and began spending money from his large fortune on a new political machine largely recruited from the Spanish-American population. Later accused of buying the vote, he muffled his critics by inviting investigation, then remarked: "The purchasable vote in New Mexico is not nearly as large as most people think." Nominally Republican, he helped elect a Democrat to the Senate in 1924. This move so blurred the State...
...exiled Austrian archduke and an Indian woman, Rico grew up in the jungles of a nameless Spanish-American country, turned bandit in his youth and became dictator in his manhood. A frank realist, he never hesitated to kill when it was necessary. He was pleased that the people said of him: "He is a man of business." His principle: "If in doubt, kill! Nor fear that you waste aught of value." His aim was to govern well; when he found that modernization went against the country's grain he benevolently preserved the status quo. He permitted the kind...