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...Selznick's cameras, is a wish to see the desert. They do it in a caravan whose manager is a bubbling young Algerian named Batouch (Joseph Schildkraut). Tripping about the North Sahara they enjoy life to the full until one night a French Army officer, lost with his troop, happens on their camp. When Batouch brings in a bottle of the Trappist liqueur Lagarnine, the officer remembers where he has met Boris before. Without so much as saying, "It's a small world after all," he goes off in a rage...
...organized a company in the Spanish-American War, served as major in the 3rd Kentucky Infantry on the Mexican border in 1916, went to France with it in 1918. In the St. Mihiel offensive he was cited for valor, promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. At the head of a troop of Kentucky National Guardsmen in 1921 he put down a riot in strike-torn Newport, was promoted to Brigadier General of the National Guard. Grateful Newporters presented him with a saddle horse, and for similar service citizens of Fort later gave him a set of silver. But as the years passed...
...France at the expense of a rich nobleman. Crossing to Denmark in a sailing vessel, the youths got no farther than Copenhagen because of the Franco-Prussian War. Cared for by the bishop and clergy of that city, "Nonni" was converted to Catholicism, then skipped off with a troop of gypsies, was found by police after many an adventure. The two young Icelanders finally arrived in France in 1871, by which time "Nonni" had discovered a vocation for the priesthood. He studied at a Jesuit college in Amiens, there entered the Jesuit novitiate, was packed off by his superiors...
...ablest cavalry officers, picked from Canada, Chile, France, Great Britain, the Irish Free State, Sweden and the U. S. He was General John Joseph Pershing. Most popular event of the evening was the performance of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. More spectacular than in fiction or cinema, a troop of 37 in scarlet tunics and broad-brimmed hats, carrying lances with pennants, maneuvered to the tune of The Campbells Are Coming...
...Ashford's 48 voters get up on Election Day at 5 a. m., troop by lantern light down steep Mt. Greylock to ballot at the district school. This year National Broadcasting Co. arranged to send one of its bullet-nosed transmitter trucks to the scene for a play-by-play description of the voting & counting. That this would dull the brightness of its election morning flash was at once apparent to the Eagle. Editor Lawrence K. Miller sent a newshawk to sleep in the filling station which has New Ashford's one public telephone...