From, “Walk the Prank: Secret Story of Mysterious Portrait
at Pentagon,” by Adam Entous, 4/16/12, The Wall Street Journal:
In a Pentagon hallway hung an austere portrait of a Navy man lost at sea in 1908, with his brass
buttons, blue-knit uniform and what looks like meticulously blow-dried hair.
Wait. Blow-dried hair?
The portrait of "Ensign Chuck Hord," framed in the
heavy gilt typical of government offices, may be the greatest—or perhaps
only—prank in Pentagon art history. "Chuck Hord" can't be found in
Navy records of the day. It isn't even a real painting. The textured,
30-year-old photo is actually of Capt. Eldridge Hord III, 53 years old, known
to friends as "Tuck," a military retiree with a beer belly and
graying hair who lives in Burke,
Va.
Austere: severe or strict
in manner, attitude or appearance
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