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...wasp was little Huey Long. He dictated a succinct reply: "I have the honor to decline your demands in toto." Then he ordered out the Baton Rouge unit of the National Guard and a detachment of highway police, directed them to guard the Capitol and executive mansion "to prevent Cyr from seizing them." Next he hopped into a State automobile and roared off for the capital...
...little landscapes. He would sneak away from his job at the Versailles Peace Conference to paint the honey-bearded chef of the Hotel Chatham in Paris. He told President Wilson, General Pershing, Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson what he thought of them and earned the subsidiary nickname of "The Wasp." When he could not stand the idea of drawing another frock coat, he would paint himself again, accenting his pixie face, dressing himself in outlandish costumes. There exist striking self-portraits of Billy Orps in a succession of funny hats, in racing silks as a jockey, as a major...
Lieut. Ernst Udet was, next to Baron von Richthofen, the highest German ace in the War. He brought down 62 Allied planes, earned the nickname "Wasp" for his habit of attacking one plane in a squadron, escaping before the others could reach him. Now called "Flea" for his energetic hopping about Europe, baldish. blue-eyed Herr Udet resumed his waspish characteristics on the first day of the National Air Races at Cleveland last week...
...divided in two for the occasion. There were tunes by a prodigious band, elaborate parades of civic and social organizations. Presently the first covey of stunt flyers, a team of Europeans assembled by onetime U. S. Navy flyer Lieut. Alford J. Williams, took the air. Going past the stands, Wasp Udet shot out of formation as the other planes landed, climbed almost perpendicularly, turned on his side, dropped till his left wing seemed to brush the ground, climbed again, rounded the field upside down at a height of 200 ft., cut his motor and made a perfect landing after three...
Physical characteristics are an inevitable concomitant of personality. And personalities are the stuff of which history is made. TIME, historian, must continue to notice noses large & small, waists wasp...