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...Batista had been one of the humblest of Cuba's humble pueblo. He began his education (including English) in a U.S.-Quaker missionary school. He made a hungry living as a laborer in the cane fields, on the docks and railroads. He was a jack-of-all-trades: tailor, mechanic, charcoal vender, fruit peddler, and finally an Army stenographer. In the Army he got around, became a staff sergeant with remarkably wide connections. When Gerardo Machado's hated dictatorship rotted away in 1933, Sergeant Batista, then 32, astounded the Western Hemisphere by taking over the Army...
...West Coast's major-league champion got his nickname from base-running antics while wearing his father's overalls as a nine-year-old member of the Dubuque (Iowa) Ninth Street Blues. Now 64, he dresses like a tailor's ad, drinks champagne cocktails and has been called "the most lovable guy in the whole damn game." As president of Los Angeles' Angels, Pants earned The Sporting News's (TIME, Nov. 8) title of No. 1 minor-league executive last year...
Marshal Pietro Badoglio's diplomatic staff, who left Rome in a hurry without their grey-striped trousers, finally got in touch with a tailor. He cut them new pairs from the only cloth he could get: brown-spotted yellow tweed...
...appeared. The Tale of Peter Rabbit was followed by 21 other children's books-tales of Squirrel Nutkin, Benjamin Bunny, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Mrs. Tittlemouse, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, Mr. Jeremy Fisher. Potterites of all ages had their favorites, but connoisseurs would probably agree that the masterpiece was The Tailor of Gloucester...
...foolish first thoughts on meeting a dashing stranger (who of course turns out to be a fox): "Jemima thought him mighty civil and handsome." Or the note left by the mice to explain why they had not finished the last buttonhole on the coat they made for the old tailor of Gloucester: "No more twist...