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We have been scoffed at for a nation of money-lovers, we the greatest idealists in politics since the French Revolution. The warring powers have said, scornfully or sorrowfully, that we have forgotten our ancient tradition of liberty and of strength, bending our knees in idolatry to the false gods...
The rest is a windy literary turn. He sketches the history of Gilles de Rais, the 15th century French child murderer, who was not a vampire. He gives a gloss of Rider Haggard's She, which is not about vampires, and a 20-page summary of Bram Stoker'...
Although his weekly column is only a month old, LaVelle's introduction to the trade began two years ago when Author Studs Terkel recruited him for neighborhood-tavern discussions that Terkel was filming for the National Education Television network. Once he was assured that Terkel did not want to...
The funds are intended to subsidize needed public facilities and services. Officials in Danville, Ill., for example, will probably spend their $504,000 on raising policemen's and firemen's wages and building a new jail; two weeks ago, a prisoner escaped by simply bending his cell bars...
"Ah, it's going to be great," rumbled Saloonkeeper Toots Shor as he opened the doors of his new watering hole for Manhattan's sporting set (Toots' last place was shut down in 1971 for nonpayment of taxes). Bending elbows and ears at the festivities were some...