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Sir: You refer to the Molly McGuires as "a band of Pennsylvania miners who assassinated fellow workers and bosses alike." I wish to advise that as a student of their history and direct descendant of the county delegate of Schuylkill County, at no time did I ever come across any...
Chapter III. There was an old law in the realm; not since 1772 had a descendant of George II been allowed to marry without his sovereign's consent. So the lord sought out his cousin for her queenly permission. But since the lord was the first member of the...
While touring Harlech Castle in Wales, U.S. Physiologist Sanford Siegel found a wallside spot that had been often used as an open-air urinal. Not everyone would react the same way, but it made Siegel think of his job-studying what organisms survive in hostile environments. After scooping up some...
No Trace of Water. The first aspirin was made by Germany's Bayer company, and its U.S. descendant (a division of Sterling Drug Inc.) today charges six to ten times as much as no-name brands. To justify the difference, Bayer contrasts U.S.P.*minimum standards with its own. Before...
It is no great liability that trim, urbane, greyingly handsome Kingman Brewster, at 48, looks rather as if he had been type-cast by Otto Preminger for the job of chief salesman and spokesman for Yale. An eleventh-generation descendant of a Mayflower immigrant, he is every inch the patrician...