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McCormick, now 62, joined the Illinois National Guard before the U.S. entered World War I. A friend asked IIlinois's Governor, the late Edward Dunne, for a commission for him. Dunne, who had often been roasted by the Tribune, roared: "I'll give that bastard McCormick nothing unless he runs an editorial completely repudiating everything the Tribune has said about me." The Tribune did. McCormick was commissioned a major...
...Clay Maclvor, but when infantile paralysis withered her right leg, he made off with her sister Aven ("graceful as a waterfall"). Morna had to content herself, illicitly, with the "incredibly handsome" Keith Alexander, while the leg limbered up. Keith (in nonfiction the remarkable Alexander Keith McClung) was the bitter bastard son of a great man in Washington. Keith shot 17 men for asking who. Author Street keeps his guesses to himself...
...potential U.S. war weapons, none has been more completely orphaned than the profit motive. For fear it might be confused with its bastard cousin, profiteering, neither business nor Government has cared (or dared) stand up for it. Last week the House Ways & Means Committee prepared to abandon the orphan for the duration, reported favorably on a 94% excess-profits tax. For corporations in the highest bracket that means that every extra dollar of cost will actually cost only...
Said Isamu: "I decided if I was going to be a bastard, I'd be a first-class bastard. . . . I figured I could beat a big bunch of white gardeners out of their business. I did. I acted just like a white man, but I did it better, and my gardens are the best in town." Isamu paid more than $1,000 in income taxes this year; owned four trucks, a half-dozen power-mowers; had three full-time assistants-two Japs and a Mexican; hired white college boys for part-time work. Said Isamu Horino: "Why should...
Columbus' Journal is also missing. But a copy found its way to Columbus' contemporary biographer, Bartolome de Las Casas, who abstracted from it the text we have today. The same or another copy was used by Ferdinand Columbus (the Admiral's bastard son), who quoted long passages in writing his father's life. Professor Morison believes that these and other data are contemporary documentation enough. The real confusion about Columbus, he believes, has been caused by more recent biographies written by "armchair admirals" who know nothing about...