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...Rider painting companion, bean-pole-tall August Macke, painted his somber Farewell, a square filled with blank-faced men, women and children, before marching off to the front, where he was killed immediately. Marc completed his paintings of trapped, wounded animals, and died a soldier's death at Verdun...
Born poor in the southern Indiana hill country, Shay Minton went to work when he was "about 14," put himself through Indiana University and Law School (top of the class) and Yale Law School (cum laude, 1916), served in the infantry in World War I at Soissons and Verdun. Settling in New Albany, Ind., he practiced law, was elected to the U.S. Senate in Depression-drugged 1934 with a straight New Deal platform and a battle cry: "You can't offer a hungry man the Constitution." For six years Minton had a place in the vanguard...
Oberleutnant Franz Marc, artillery observer in the Kaiser's Fifth Army, stood tall, handsome and sad one day in early March 1916 in a hush of the great battle for Verdun. "One chews constantly," he had written his wife, "on that ever more baffling riddle: how this war is possible." He had spoken of living on three levels: soldierly, meditative and creative. Soldiering was to him "a complete dream act." Meditating was "perhaps closer to true experience." Creating was "an unconscious growing and going towards a goal, the sprouting of art ... a seed that one must not grasp rudely...
...sang everything from Bach and Palestrina to "Fair Harvard." As the New York Herald's Paris edition commented, the Club had shown that there was something besides jazz in America. They also performed in many famous cathedrals, including a concert under the stars in the shell of Verdun Cathedral...
...that time, Traitor Esterhazy was safe in England, where he survived to an obscure old age in a boarding house in a slum quarter of London. After Dreyfus was exonerated, he served one year, retired, then came out of retirement to fight with distinction at Chemin des Dames and Verdun in World War I. He died in Paris in 1935, aged...