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Digging up material for a New Jersey almanac, Author Harry B. Weiss ran across the 1818 report of famed English Radical William Cobbett, in A Journal of a Year's Residence in the United States. Excerpt: "I have just dined upon cold ham, cold veal, butter and cheese and a peach pye; nice clean room, well furnished, waiter clean and attentive, plenty of milk; and charge, a quarter of a dollar. I had not the face to pay the waiter a quarter of a dollar; but gave him half a dollar, and told him to keep the change...
...think the responsibility of keeping the home full of love and comfort," said Novelist Hans Habe generously to a woman interviewer, "is at least as great as making a buck." The author of A Thousand Shall Fall did not mean, he hastened to add, that women should "just stay in the kitchen," but: "After all, somebody has to bring home the bacon and somebody has to cook it. But it is not a natural man's nature to bake the bacon...
...General John J. Pershing, 87, at Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington, went a special gold medal (author ized by Congress) for his "heroic achievements and . . . devotion" from one war through the next...
Writing for the screen, Author James Hilton once remarked, could do a man no harm. It might, he said, actually be a good thing, in keeping him keenly alive to story values. Novelist Hilton has spent the best part of a dozen years in Hollywood since Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips brought him fame and passage from England. Nothing So Strange (the title derives from Daniel Webster: "There is nothing so powerful as truth-and often nothing so strange") is certainly alive to story values-in the movie sense-besides being the Literary Guild selection for November...
That was the beginning of the famed Comstock Lode, but it was 15 years before it really paid off-when it became the royal domain of four shrewd Irishmen. In just one year (1874) each became a multimillionaire. Oscar Lewis, annalist of San Francisco and author of a good book (The Big Four) on the builders of the Central Pacific, has written a thoughtful history of the men who exploited Corn-stock's richest ore. He makes it clear that the West as a whole gained nothing from this strike but a prolonged fever and a legend...