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...prizewinning news from the Los Angeles Times. San Franciscans rely on the clubhouse newspaper, the Chronicle ("comical" to locals), whose existence depends almost solely on Herb Caen, 75, America's longest-running columnist (circa 1938), and whose chief function is the nurturing of San Francisco's insatiable narcissism. The Chron's competitor, Hearst's Examiner, is hardly better, specializing in the scandalous activities of local politicians...
Senate Select Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye has one. So does Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh. So, too, does just about every journalist, congressional staffer and attorney investigating the labyrinthine intricacies of the Iran-contra scandal. Known simply as the Chron, the 678-page paperback (Warner Books; $5.95) has become the ultimate viewer's guide to the hearings...
Prosperity is not so old in industrial It aly that men have forgotten the chron ic unemployment that once forced southerners to trek into northern Eu rope for jobs...
...Apostles, he was denied a fellowship by Cambridge, took only second-class honors, and left the university in 1905 to begin 13 years of scratch-penny frustration as a book reviewer and minor literary essayist. Then in 1918, after two years of fierce work in defiance of his chron ically miserable health, he brought out the four devastating historical essays-on Dr. Arnold, Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale and Chinese Gordon-that shredded all lingering pretensions of Victorian moral eminence. "The his torian of Literature," Strachey had once written, "is the historian of exploded reputations"; by diligently dynamiting the reputations...
...system cannot last beyond the year 1907: Cong. Rec. Senator Sherman, p. 5381; Pres. Coe in Proceeding of Nat. Bank Ass'n, 1881, p. 30; Ingalls and Plumb in Sen. Journ. 48th Cong. 1st sess. pp. 1148-9, 1298. (b) There is need of more currency: Come. and Financ. Chron. May, 1892, pp. 781, 868; Cong...
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