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...then there was the riff on loyalty from an old Elbert Hubbard essay, which Rowley received from a number of retired agents. A paraphrased version of Hub-bard's words used to hang on the walls of FBI headquarters while J. Edgar Hoover was director. It read, in part: "If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him; speak well of him and stand by the institution he represents. Remember--an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness ... If you must growl, condemn, and eternally find fault, why--resign your position and when...
...DIED. STAN RICE, 60, American poet and painter; from brain cancer; in New Orleans. Rice, the husband of Interview with a Vampire novelist Anne Rice, won several awards for his seven collections of poetry, including the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Academy of American poets and the Joseph Henry Jackson Award...
Despite her illness, Taft completed her studies and graduated in 1944. She also met her husband, Edgar Taft, while at Yale...
According to Edgar Flores, a dispatcher with DATTCO, the company’s fleet was overbooked on Friday, so the firm had to charter one of the buses from Double A Transportation...
...prolific writer, Black has published nine books and over 150 articles in magazines, including The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s and Rolling Stone. He has received an Emmy nomination and Golden Globe nomination for “Law & Order,” three Edgar Allan Poe Award nominations and a Pulitzer Prize nomination. He has won numerous awards, including the Writers’ Guild of America award for his feature The Confession, as well as Playboy’s Best Article of the Year Award...