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...story was pieced together by an experienced team of four investigative reporters, and one young rewrite man who infiltrated the Chicago board of election commissioners. In charge was George Bliss, 53, veteran of many exposes and Pulitzer prizewinner. Bliss, who had done earlier stories on election fraud, got a break last spring when he learned of a vacant patronage job at the election board. Of 200 positions, only four were for Republicans, including the $20-a-day clerk's post. To fill it Bliss needed an "inside man" at the Trib, one who would not be recognized by city...
...happiness of Tupelo Honey. The early, post-Them rantings of "T.B. Sheets," and "He Ain't Give You None," were nothing more than the transposition of his tormented personal life into his music. He began to solve those problems with Moondance, and finally dismissed them altogether for the connubial bliss of Tupelo Honey. In light of all that, Saint Dominic's Preview doesn't portend well...
...Ontario Crippled Children's Centre in Toronto, where Kari is a pupil, is successfully using a system of symbols as a substitute for spoken language. They are patterned after "Blis-symbols," devised some 30 years ago by an Austrian-born chemical engineer named Charles Bliss in the hope that they would be used to promote international understanding. Hardly anyone paid any attention, though, until last year, when Shirley McNaughton, a teacher at the center, came upon an account of them in a library and decided that they might be modified for use by the handicapped...
...common during the Thirty Years War in the 17th century, when troops ravaged the countryside indiscriminately. New or old, wanton slaughter recalls the question posed by Nietzsche's red judge: "Why did this criminal murder?" Nietzsche's reply: "His soul wanted blood; he thirsted after the bliss of the knife...
...intrigued by your observation that the Chinese appear to be a happy people. Enslavement and total thought control tend to breed ignorant bliss. The Chinese are "happy" only because they know no other lifestyle. All memory of pre-Communist times has been eliminated by Mao's indoctrination...