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...reads an excerpt from Trial by Jury in New York, first published 120 years ago. The conflict between free press and fair trial has been around a long time...
Following is an excerpt of the Graduate School of Education's report on the secondary schools of Pittsburgh. This section of the report deals with the Ed School's concept of "educational centers...
Nevada Smith is an excerpt from The Carpetbaggers, blown into a widescreen western roomy enough to accommodate some of the sex and violence missing from the first, expurgated movie version of Harold Robbins' bestseller. Turning a thankless bit part created by the late Alan Ladd into a title role for Steve McQueen, Nevada follows a half-breed boy on an odyssey of vengeance in pursuit of three professional gunmen who murdered his white father, raped and skinned his Indian mother...
That sentence first appeared in an excerpt from the book printed in LIFE magazine four months ago, and the controversy over whether Schlesinger should have published it has yet to subside. He was accused of "the height of historical irresponsibility," of cashing in on confidences from a dead man, of writing "peephole history," of endangering the national interest. In his defense, he quoted British Philosopher Walter Bagehot: "When a historian withholds important facts likely to influence the judgment of his readers, he commits a fraud." (But Schlesinger himself ignored that injunction when, according to a friend, he decided to omit...
...nincompoop waiters for whom a dog, a banana peel, three whipped-cream cakes, and a lady in a sliding tiara add up to disaster. The theme of tit-for-tat destruction, a comedy cliche raised to classic stature by Laurel and Hardy, is the starting point for an excerpt from their pie-in-the-face epic Battle of the Century. Whether dangling from the girders of an unfinished skyscraper, flattening a bungalow as they build it, or luring a horse onto a grand piano, they are pluperfect clowns...