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...Groucho Marx's refusal to belong to any club with such low standards that it would have him for a member. Abraham Lincoln in 1860 entered polite America's imagination cartooned as an ungainly ape, an uncouth backwoods savage. In the 1932 election campaign, even some liberals appraised Franklin Roosevelt as a feckless mama's boy from the silver-spoon Hudson River gentry, a man without character or principles. "An amiable Boy Scout," wrote Walter Lippman...
...dynamic is almost always the same. In the 1940s Harry Truman, a hero President in today's myth, came onstage as a moral-cultural-intellectual nonentity, the strutty little haberdasher of Independence, Missouri, ridiculously trying to fill the shoes of Franklin Roosevelt, who was of course by that time...
...Crimson will face all of the teams in the Ivy League in addition to Trinity, Franklin and Marshall, Williams, Amherst, Rochester and Navy. Princeton and Penn will pose the only serious threat to Harvard's quest for a six-peat...
...have always found him to be very honest and very bright and a real problem solver," said Elizabeth D. Scheibel, district attorney for Hampshire and Franklin counties and the president of the Massachusetts District Attorney's Association...
...other end of the league standings, undefeated Princeton (8-0, 5-0) handed Penn (5-3, 3-2) its first loss at Franklin Field since...