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Irving (The Fabulous Originals) Wallace uses these lines from Alice in Wonderland as foreword to his studies of nine Americans of the March hare species. Wallace's fondness for just-this-side-of-the-nuthouse characters began in adolescence, when Wilbur Glenn Voliva, onetime high prophet of Zion City, Ill., personally assured him that the earth was shaped like a saucer and the sky ''a solid dome." Wallace concedes that Voliva's own dome was probably far from solid, but he argues that Voliva stood for ''the human freedom to be different...
...Whirlpool. The spark behind the latest bannings was newly elected Mrs. Earl Maughmer Jr., wife of a police sergeant. She objected to a widely used text called Geography of the World for High Schools because it praised the U.N. in the foreword, also condemned a book which Yale Geographer Stephen B. Jones helped write because one of its chapters bore the title: "It's All One World." Then she went after a twelfth-grade text called Applied Economics because it said that the Government had certain obligations "to promote the welfare of all the people." Said one board member...
Wrote Editor-in-Chief Henry R. Luce in the foreword: "This book is a tribute to the Hungarian dead, to whom we owe our pity, our pride and our praise. But this book is also a salute to the ways men find-ways routine and ways heroic-to tell each other the story of great deeds and their meaning. So it is always with the story of freedom...
...last month a rabble-rousing Moslem editor named Ishaq Almi from Kanpur in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, chanced to find on a newsstand a cheap Indian reprint of Living Biographies of Religious Leaders by Henry and Dana Lee Thomas. Inside Almi found a foreword by Uttar Pradesh's Governor Kanialal M. Munshi, director of the Bombay firm which published the book in India, praising it as "worthwhile reading." He also found a biography of Mohammed with the following story...
Legend Persists. Even more wittily, the novelist himself has supported the publisher's proud claim that this new edition carries a "new foreword by the author" in a neat 76 words. Thus at 81, Winston Churchill shows himself more garrulous by 29 words than in the original note in which the young officer of the IVth (Queen's Own) Hussars was moved to submit the book "with considerable trepidation to the judgement or clemency of the public.'' The aged Knight of the Garter adds for the current edition: "The intervening fifty-five years have somewhat dulled...