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...codger, a boozer, and no-gooder, all of which is doubtless too true. The private car Virginia City is not, however, my car. It belongs jointly and in equal partnership to Charles Clegg and Lucius Beebe, and I would be indebted to you if, in the private car dossier in your library devoted to such matters or to me and Mr. Clegg against our ultimate obituaries, you made a note to this effect. It is rather mean to have him put up half the scratch or wampum for this property and then have it altogether attributed to his partner...
When Senator McCarthy was riding highest in 1953, a flush-faced man named Paul Hughes held out a bright promise to some of the Senator's bitterest foes. The promise: he could unhorse McCarthy with a dossier of "proof" that the Senator's investigators were resorting freely to burglary, blackmail, bribery and frame-ups to serve McCarthy's ends. Last week Hughes went on trial in a Manhattan federal courtroom on a charge of perjury, in what, a U.S. attorney called "one of the most fantastic schemes to make money in the annals of modern political intrigue...
...Milan's Corriere della Sera, Italy's largest newspaper, reported that the Pope also had heard the "true and distinct" voice of Christ. Vatican officials denied press hints that 1) a miraculous cure of the Pope's stomach condition had followed the vision, 2) that a dossier of possible miraculous occurrences was being assembled with a view toward the Pope's eventual canonization. Nevertheless, when the Pope left his summer home at Castel Gandolfo to return to Rome, crowds cried: "Viva il Papa santo." ¶ The church must put sex "in its proper and God-given...
...cites one dossier as typical of many showing the complete domination of the university by the state. The file begins with a Police Report: "two students arrested last night for being drunk and shouting liberty." The next entry is an Executive Order from the Ministry of Education to the Dean of the university: "Expel the students." And the final prompt response from the Dean: "Orders complied with." The government, in short, was changing universities into mere departments, and teaching chairs were awarded as prizes for political submission...
Bringing joy to these pure hearts, however, is the fact that after hiring in his place Bob Blackman, complete with a dossier loaded with victories at the University of Denver, the Indians have failed to win a game this year in their four tries...