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...holdings of his father, but the name and run-down estate of her sisters as well. Instead of working his property, Leo Fox-Donell spent his time tippling and wenching. More through inertia than patriotism he drifted into a secret political society and organized a raid on a police garrison. It failed when he stopped for a drink with his men before going to the ambush. He was still drinking when the police took him in. During his years in an English prison Leo lost the last of his holdings to an older brother and acquired instead a personal hatred...
...capital without a Thunderer" is what Oswald Garrison Villard likes to call Washington, because it has nothing remotely resembling the London Times. Its press, rarely quoted and hardly ever read outside the District of Columbia, includes: 1) a morning and an evening Hearstpaper which look like Hearstpapers everywhere; 2)a Scripps-Howard paper which differs from others only in its tabloid size; 3) the fat old Washington Evening Star which bulges with more advertising than any other sheet in the country and never dares to say "Boo"; 4) and the Washington Post. The Post attracted little serious attention while irresponsible...
...criterion for the excerpts chosen, a corresponding absence of uniform literary merit calls forth neither surprise nor complaint. Side by side with such brilliant prose as that in which De Quincey illumined the mysteries of laudanum, we find the halting periods of Kavanaugh, whose bravery saved the British garrison at Lucknow. The biblical account of the exodus from Egypt offers strange contrast, both in time and in method of approach, to the war diary of a flighty young aviator. In lesser vein are the colorful tales of spies, condemnations, countermands in the nick of time, secret sleigh journeys...
...antithesis of his immediate predecessors on the Post, Publisher Stern at least shares with its oldtime Editors Edwin Lawrence Godkin and Oswald Garrison Villard, a ready liberalism and an ink-stained knowledge of how to run a newspaper. A young Philadelphian out of the University of Pennsylvania, he bought the New Brunswick (N. J.) Times for $1,500 in 1911, when he was 25. With it, he promptly began a lively campaign to clean up the municipal government. When he sold the Times to political adversaries he got $25,000. He and his wife bought a car, drove to Springfield...
...GARRISON...