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Shortly before she left Germany, she received a visit from two Hitler Youths, ardent Nazis of the year before. They said they wanted to ski over into Czechoslovakia. Pumped for their reason, 16-year-old Otto said: "I'll now quote Herr Abraham Lincoln: 'You can fool all the people some of the time,' " etc. Later that day Otto smashed the teeth of another Hitler Youth he caught baiting an old Jewish woman, got a warm handshake from the Nazi cop who rushed him to a quiet side street, told him to scram...
...Proverbs XVII, 10: "A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool...
...GREEN FOOL-Patrick Kavanagh -Harper...
...other hand, The Green Fool, the autobiography of a sort of Irish Jesse Stuart, is one of the most plum-Irish volumes in a month of Sundays. Born in Mucker (corrupted Gaelic for "good pig-raising place"), County Monaghan, Patrick Kavanagh was "a bit of a lazybones, a bit of a liar and a bit of a rogue." He quit school at 12, worked on farms, joined the Irish Republican Army, learned poaching and desultory banditry, went to all the weddings, wakes, funerals, became highly learned in Mucker legend, superstitions, gossip, cunning...
...scientist, Everson recognized genius when he heard his gangling new employe's television theory. He went to see two officers of San Francisco's Crocker First National Bank, Jesse B. McCargar and the late James J. Fagan. Crusty Banker Fagan remarked: "Well, that is a damn fool idea but someone ought to put money into it and someone that can afford to lose it." He and McCargar put up an initial $25,000. The year...