Word: ertz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Biased Reporter. The Time's mourning grain of sand turned out last week to be plump, bearded Dr. Eugene Horsfall-Ertz, 53, jovial headmaster of a boys' school in Sussex. Dr. Horsfall-Ertz, whose hobby is history, has set himself the sizable task of cleaning up Richard's bad reputation. Like some other scholars, Horsfall-Ertz has come to the conclusion that Richard has been grossly maligned by history, that he did not murder the little princes, and that, all in all, he was one of the best, kindest and wisest kings in England's history...
...Horsfall-Ertz's case is basically the same as the one presented by the late Josephine Tey in her intellectual mystery-thriller, The Daughter of Time (Macmillan, 1952). Author Tey's (and Horsfall-Ertz's) argument is based mainly on the fact that there is no contemporary evidence to support the ugly charges against Richard. What the world knows comes from Sir Thomas More's History of Richard III. Most people have long assumed that Sir Thomas (who was canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1935) was an on-the-spot reporter, but historians know that...