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...sparked the revolt of Oct. 23, mostly young Communists, were not thinking in terms of Lenin, but of the Hungarian patriots who revolted against the Habsburg monarchy in 1848. The street and rooftop fighters, who took over the struggle from the intellectuals, performed their self-appointed tasks with a valor, pride and gallantry that is found only in the revolutionary traditions of the late 18th and 19th centuries. Then, as their strength was exhausted in the battle against modern steel, the fight was taken over by the stolid nerveless men of the factories, inspired by Utopian ideals of a democratic...
GALLIPOLI, by Alan Moorehead. A monument to the British defeat by the Turks at Gallipoli in 1915-which, like many another military disaster, is better remembered for valor than for folly. Combat writing that can stand with the classics in a much overwrit ten field...
Died. Mario Ponzio, 71, cancer researcher and professor of radiology (since 1936) at the University of Turin, who underwent 19 operations to delay his inevitable death from radium burns suffered in his experiments, in 1955 was awarded Italy's highest honor, the Gold Medal for Valor; in Turin, Italy...
...nothing but the best-and the best was cold hammered steel. Messire Olivier de la Marche, Captain of the Guards to Charles the Bold, wrote in its praise: "Steel is the most noble metal-of it one makes war harnesses, swords, daggers and other glaives by means of which-valor is shown by enemy against enemy." The tough steel plate gave helmsmiths and armorers a far harder task than was faced by earlier artisans, who worked in iron and bronze. But medieval and Renaissance craftsmen achieved results that for pure, functional beauty rank with the most remarkable workmanship ever done...
...melodrama concerns the efforts of two villans to rest the ownership of the Walker Valley, Pine Bush & Pacific Railroad from a defenseless, aged widow. She, inevitably, has a beautiful daughter who, of course, figures in the dastards' ultimate goal. They do not succeed, however, thanks to the "Courage and Valor in all Things but One" (Drink) of one Truman Pendennis. Not even poor Truman ever seems really doubtful about the happy outcome, and all is well...