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...membership seems to get younger and younger,? Berry said, even back then, before the ?86 team reenergized the Nation big time. ?Very few are left who remember Black Jack Wilson and Fritz Ostermueller from the ?30s. Whatever . . . The club is prospering. There has been serious talk of starting a BLOHARDS chapter in Chicago-there are plenty of Red Sox fans there. Most of them don?t recall Irene Hennessey, but they root for the Sox. That?s what counts...
...reminder that--just as in all previous times--modern America will insist on seeing Lincoln on its own terms. Consider C.A. Tripp and his argument that Lincoln was gay. His book The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln begins with the fact that Lincoln during his late 20s and early 30s shared a bed with a young man named Joshua Speed. As President, Lincoln may also have shared his bed with a captain of his guard unit in Washington...
...never lost heart. His spacious ambition propelled him forward--through his laborious efforts to educate himself, his willingness to try again to reach the state legislature, the death of his first love, Ann Rutledge, and his incapacitating depression during the winter of 1841, when he was in his early 30s. His decision to break off his engagement to Mary Todd had left him devastated, not only because he had hurt Mary but also because he had long considered his ability to keep his word "as the only, or at least the chief, gem of [his] character." Now he could...
...poet, he is best remembered for his lyricism. He was a young man of the ideological '30s, though politically he appears to have been in the thin of it: a Communist briefly in his youth and a liberal during the years before and after World War II. He later joined the Congress for Cultural Freedom and became an editor for its anti-Communist magazine Encounter. He quit in 1967 after learning that the C.C.F. was being used as a funding conduit...
Three days before the former Prime Minister was buried, the search for his killer finally produced an arrest. Police jailed a Swedish man in his 30s on suspicion of "complicity" in the murder. The suspect, who was not named, had been near the scene of the crime when it happened. His lawyer, who admitted that his client bore a "certain resemblance" to a police sketch of the killer, insisted that he was innocent. --By Michael S. Serrill Reported by Julian Isherwood and John Kohan/Stockholm