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"But Santayana, as Bertrand Russell once said, was a 'cold fish.' He lacks the saving qualities of generosity and love. It goes without saying, of course, that Santayana is one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Yet somehow one says this grudglugly, without affection. Just why, it is...
Old Fossil. Few of his contemporaries won his affection, fewer still his awe. President Buchanan he labeled "Old Pennsylvania Fossil." Andrew Jackson, he noted, had done the U.S. "more harm than any man who ever lived in it. unless it may have been Tom Jefferson." Boss Tweed he crowned "His...
Nothing in that diary is more moving than the record of Strong's slowly changing attitude toward Lincoln. At first, he mistrusted a presidential candidate whose main claim to office seemed "the fact that he split rails when he was a boy." Later he ranted against the evacuation of...
As governor of Texas, tall (6 ft. 2 in.), dark & handsome Allan Shivers has been widely regarded as an efficient administrator, but not as a fighter. "Allan has no affection for lost causes," says one of his friends. "He likes to win." Manager of one of Texas' richest private...
Treatment at some of London's best hospitals did no good. A trial operation to graft normal skin from his chest to his horny palms proved worse than useless: the grafted skin blackened like the rest, then shrank and stiffened his fingers. The boy went to school, but his...