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...readers with fortitude and staying power the three volumes are certainly worth the price as a 1) folksy, firsthand account of the making of the 46th state and the unmaking of one of America's last big frontiers; the description, told with disarming simplicity, of Murray's rise from boy cotton picker to governor; 2) for a homespun insistence on the dignity of the individual man, the value of personal enterprise and the danger of increasing Government power; 3) the Murray version of Oklahoma's troubled politics. The three volumes are also a fabulous item of Americana...
...years I have been away during the war gave me a valuable firsthand understanding of how very important the news in TIME has become to intelligent people all over the world...
...entirely out of the hands of journalists and into the hands of the historians, I think you might be interested in reliving some of its great moments-as they seemed to the TIME & LIFE newsmen who so often risked and too often gave their lives to report the fighting firsthand...
Post Dispatch, Laybourne today is the fulltime head of our office in the Dominion capital. But he knows every province in Canada firsthand-is as likely to be found somewhere in the Maritimes or way out on Vancouver Island...
When TIME was two years old all of National Affairs was written by one man (who also turned out Science and Books). In the entire U.S. we had not one correspondent to send us the news firsthand-and it wasn't until eleven years later that we had our own Washington News Bureau...