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Beedle Smith was a bootstrap soldier. He rose to the top of his profession without ever attending either West Point or college. As a small boy in Indianapolis, he listened to the vivid recollections of his German grandfather, a veteran of the Franco-Prussian War, and decided he would become a soldier. At 15, he joined the Indiana National Guard. When World War I began in Europe, Sergeant Major Smith reluctantly refused a commission in the Regular Army because his family could not afford to buy his uniforms. But after the U.S. entered the war, he won his shoulder bars...
...Your vivid account of the Tour de France [July 21] reminded me of a day, almost ten years ago, when my girl friend and I achieved a certain celebrity in one of the regional bicycle races that precede the big Tour...
...retreated into the isolation of power so early. A gregarious man with uncommon social charm, Kennedy has become steadily less and less available to old college and political pals. Once the most accessible President the Washington press corps had ever known, he is now acutely sensitive to criticism. His vivid Irish wit flashes infrequently. One White House staffer who sees him daily says that even in the midst of briefings the President sometimes ceases to listen as he stares into space-apparently searching for the answer to some nagging problem...
...nothing in Hemingway is real, or better, "realistic," neither landscape nor language nor the vision that lies beneath. But, in the best work, it is "true," true in the sense that it coheres in a vivid, living life of its own within the book, and true in serving as an affecting illusion of the way we wish things were. We all wish, decadents that we are, that we could imitate the languid laconic cynicism of Brett and Jake and Bill Gorton; we all wish, stout hearts that we think we are, that we could argue as honestly with ourselves...
...Father Lenard's defiant colloquy with the judge was vivid testimony to the fact that the Christian faith is a stubborn adversary, even for Communism's ruthless men. Upon news of the arrests, Budapest's Archbishop Joseph Grosz, acting head of the Hungarian clergy, fired off a letter to the government. "If the arrested priests are guilty," he said, "then I, too, must be guilty. Arrest me and put me in prison with my friends." Prudently, the government chose to ignore the dare...