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...continued on third page following) call him Abu-el-Hanak ("The Man With The Jaw"). He won their admiration and confidence by leading bands of Iraqi and Bedouin tribesmen against raiders from Saudi Arabia in 1924. Quiet, studious, slender, stooped, Major Glubb spoke Arabic even better than Lawrence did, was believed to have even more influence than Lawrence...
...able, far-seeing Admiral von Tirpitz, famed for his bifurcated beard, whose active service extended to 1916. The brief German naval tradition is of daring, offensive, individual action, of surface and submarine raiders ranging far & wide through two world wars. It is of one great battle-Jutland-and of studious, hard-faced Vice Admiral Scheer directing the fleet against Jellicoe and Beatty from the bridge of the Friedrich der Grosse. It is of one afternoon in Scapa Flow when the entire German Navy went down, scuttled, to save it from surrender. It is of baton-toting grand Admiral Erich Raeder...
That Joseph Stalin would ever go for a mouse seemed unlikely, but Mr. Williams reported that, in the early days of the Finnish War, plain, studious Soviet Aviatrix Marina Raskova began to be seen riding regularly in the Dictator's official car to the Kremlin and also to his country villa. Friends of neat Miss Raskova, who parts her shiny black hair in the middle and draws it back along her skull into a bun at the rear, confirmed to Secretary Williams before 'he left Moscow that she now seems to be accepted by everyone around the Dictator...
Between Ramsay MacDonald and his second-born, Malcolm, there early developed a remarkable father-&-son relationship. Young Malcolm, a small, bespectacled, studious man as compared to his ruddy-cheeked handsome father, followed the Elder MacDonald from party to party. Mr. MacDonald was said to have turned down a peerage because he feared it would hurt his son's chances in politics...
From A. F. H. W. offices in Philadelphia to the trade press also went free contributions of cartoons, jingles. Samples: 1) A studious-looking, bespectacled girl wearing a black brassiére, polka dot panties, ill-fitting stockings. The jingle...