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...true that in his youth the President of Iran was the drummer for the British pop-music band known as the Beatles?-Lionel Bartram, Rittman, Ohio [Laughs.] Not that I'm aware of ... that's funny...
Take Marion Bartram, a 72-year-old retired orchard tender who as a West Chester school board member swears that she will fight to abolish the works of two Afro-American women writers--Jamaica Kincaid and Pulitizer-Prize winning Toni Morrison--from local public schools. In an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer, she called Morrison "anti-family" and a "man-hater," and accused Kincaid of being a "woman's libber." West Chester school officials, who were attracted to both books partly because of the female protagonists, are embroiled in a debate over yanking the authors off school reading lists...
...leading the charge are well-funded and chillingly well-organized. Not to mention the fact that they have support from some of the most prominent members of congress, including Jesse Helms and Newt Gingrich. And as Peck notes, many school district boards have become dominated by vigilantes such as Bartram, who joined the baord precisely because she was so inflamed by the literature read in area high schools...
...poet discovered his fountains both in the great, welling springs of north Florida (in his Travels, William Bartram wrote of them that "the ebullition is astonishing and continual") and in Abyssinia or Ethiopia. Alexander reports ruefully that the Ethiopian fountain, at a place called Gishe Abay, was thought to have magical properties, but may no longer; as a female, she unknowingly defiled the flow with her touch. Or so she was assured by locals...
Investigating Maris' background, a private detective easily penetrated the cover supplied by Justice Department officials. Among other curiosities, the members of the Maris family had all been issued Social Security cards with consecutive numbers. Officials at Maris' supposed alma maters, John Bartram High School (Justice officials spelled it Bertram) in Philadelphia and Baldwin Wallace College in Ohio, had never heard of him. His Army service number had never been officially issued. There was no record of his birth certificate, and his old Philadelphia home address turned out to be a vacant lot in an all-black neighborhood. When...