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...Feeling of Power. Hecht has no feeling that Palestine is the land for him. At his comfortable riverside estate at Nyack, on the Hudson, where a Hollywood "Oscar" is used as a doorstop, he lay on a couch and told Correspondent Evelyn Webber of the London Evening Standard how it felt to be a vicarious terrorist. As the Standard reported it: "I just talk. Arouse and excite the reader, and make him fighting mad. . . . Writing propaganda is like falling in love with yourself and the veiled wonders in your own brain. While I write I grow mystic. A feeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: Umbrella into Cutlass | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...frayed but hearty welcome mat will be prominently displayed on the front doorstop at 14 Plympton Street tomorrow night when the CRIMSON opens its fall competitions to all four boards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Help Wanted' Shingle Hung Out by Plympton St. Seribes | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...Bedford, Pa., Russell Lybarger, 18, chiseled at a Civil War bomb which the Lybargers used as a doorstop. The bomb exploded, mangled Russell Lybarger's hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jul. 14, 1930 | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

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