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...kind of historian emeritus among English medievalists, has long repressed a suspicion that the 1912 discovery of the Melpham Tomb was a grandiose hoax on a par with Piltdown Man. The remains of a 7th century Christian bishop named Eorpwald had been found in the tomb. But in the coffin rested a shockingly priapic fertility idol. Ever since, disconcerted historians had been trying to adjust their theories to this evidence that the good bishop had relapsed into paganism. But Middleton knows something his fellow medievalists do not. Soon after the un earthing, the discoverer's son, Gilbert Stokesay, boasted...
...Governor Edmund Sixtus Muskie, 42, running for a second term against Willis A. Trafton Jr., 37, speaker of the state house of representatives, had been conceded an edge, but he was highly surprised by his 179,697-to-123,784 victory. Lewiston Lawyer and Democratic State Chairman Frank M. Coffin fared even more spectacularly by winning, for the first time in 22 years, the Democratic congressional seat in the industrial (Lewiston) Second District. Democrat James C. Oliver lost his fight for Congressman from the industrial First District (Portland) to five-term Representative Robert Hale by only 28 votes...
Muskie and Trafton were running neck and neck, the First and Third Congressional Districts looked safely Republican, but in the Second (Lewiston-Augusta) District, Frank M. Coffin, 36, Democratic state chairman, was given an even chance to become the first Democratic Congressman from Maine in 22 years...
Your Harry Truman cover story is superb. And Mark Twain would have loved those lines about Harry Truman wanting to be buried in a mulberry coffin so he could "go through hell crackin' and poppin'." Two Missouri boys-Mark Twain and Harry Truman. Boys to be proud...
...What a swellegant day for a picnic," burbles Ne'er-Do-Weil Ned Claypoole, as the platitudes clatter with the clods over his mother's coffin. But for Ned's 16-year-old daughter Lovey, the April day of deliverance from grandma's tyranny turns heavy with foreboding. Lovey, The Beautiful Blind Girl, can see again-but she has cunningly preserved her three-week secret. For sight regained means Paradise Lost: an end to the antic freedom accorded Lovey by the town, and eviction from the cemetery's marble orchard which, blind, she has been...