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Equinimity. In Hayes, Middlesex, England, an unfortunate horse wandered into a grocery, encountered Mrs. Elsie Chard, who quickly jumped on its neck, forced it to the floor, hung on till the owner arrived...
...Shall Not Bend." Next day, leaning on a cane, Jeanette told a rally of 60,000 antiCommunists: "None of us can be kicked down for long . . . This is not Prague, this is Berlin. We shall not bend till freedom is secure...
...With only eleven days left till the uneasy four-week Arab-Jewish truce expires, Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte sent to both sides his recommendations for peace talks to achieve a permanent settlement in Palestine. The recommendations, carried by plane to Cairo and Tel Aviv, were still wrapped in official secrecy...
...Nicholas' famous son, young Francis Bacon. Parents were required to furnish their boys with a bow and three arrows and if their "child shall prove unapt for learning . . . ye shall take him away; and again, if he prove apt, then that ye shall suffer him to remain till he be completely learned...
Ambitious son of a Swiss herdsman, César Ritz left home at 15 for a job emptying slops in small Paris hotels, moved on through other jobs till he became a manager. He quit to start at the bottom again in Paris' famed Restaurant Voisin, an international hangout for royalty and gourmets. There young César's instinct for the personal touch drew the attention of influential customers. During the siege of Paris in 1871, food was so scarce that the city zoo slaughtered its two elephants, of which Voisin's got the trunks. Thanks...