Word: stoutness
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...battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton (as it probably was) [TIME, Sept. 17], then Iwo Jima and the Bulge were won on thousands of football fields in the U.S., where hundreds of thousands of stout-hearted young men have played their hearts out for the kind of honor that is not vitiated by the artificial codes of caste-conscious military gentlemen. RUDOLPH FIEHLER Magnolia...
...thrown at the Renaissance-style Palazzo Labia, just off the Grand Canal. To avoid the clatter of dishwashing at his fancier banquets, Host Labia frequently ordered his soiled gold tableware chucked into the canal at the end of each course. (The ugly gossip was that he had laid a stout fish net on the canal bottom beforehand.) The Labias and their dinnerware have long since passed into oblivion, but last week the Labia palace was all lit up again for the biggest binge cosmopolite café society had seen in a doge...
Dulles has planned Pacific security with four stout walls: the peace with Japan; a defense arrangement allowing U.S. garrisons in Japan until that country can defend itself; a mutual defense pact with the Philippines; a similar pact with Australia and New Zealand. Washington is reasonably confident that huffing & puffing will not blow the walls down...
Frank Goodman also entered the quarter finals by narrowly defeating Steve Sonnabend 5-7, 6-4, 6-2. Others in the quarter finals are Mike Levinson, Donald Stout, Dick Hatton, Chase Peterson, Gunther Ruff, and the winner of the Xenakis-Galphin match, yet to be determined...
...King as a symbol of unity. Belgium's young dynasty, just over a century old, has usually known its place. Baudouin's grandfather, mountain-climbing King Albert, became Europe's best-loved monarch (in October 1918, in trench coat and battered helmet, Albert surprised the stout burghers of Ostend as the first allied soldier to enter that Belgian city on the heels of the fleeing Germans). But he never forgot the lesson his autocratic grandfather and predecessor Leopold I had learned through hard experience: in Belgium, a King is supposed to govern, not to rule. Albert...