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...years before. In the basilica he was given the place of honor, the archbishop's throne. When the service reached the new Nicene Creed (. . . "very God of very God, begotten not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made. . .), an Arian heckler interrupted to protest. Old Anthony was puzzled. He did not understand the controversy very well, but he knew what he knew. Before a crowd tense with suppressed rationalism and electrified by his majestic presence, the saint arose...
...sounded fine, but up popped a heckler. "Would you then consider an anti-Nazi working in the underground against Hitler a maladjusted person...
Irascible, fact-conscious Kenneth Roberts, a heckler of historians and probably the most widely admired of U.S. historical novelists, is said to have spent six years on Lydia Bailey, grubbing details from archives, translating French sources, writing and polishing the text. Even so, Lydia is a pretty light-weight performance. But the first printing (including Literary Guild) is rumored to be 1,000,000 copies. Hollywood's 20th Century-Fox has already bought the story for $215,000. As a narrative it lacks the fire and dramatic punch of Northwest Passage, the unity and cogency of Oliver Wiswell...
...Galluses. He was an attorney and an educated man (University of Georgia, '07) and could talk quietly and well. But he never made the mistake of allowing the voters to discover it. He overflowed with leg-slapping rustic humor. Once, when a heckler asked if a man should be punished for beating his wife, he cried: "Depends on how hard you hit her." He chewed tobacco and smoked at the same time, sometimes dressed up in cowboy clothes to ride a mule. As Governor he built barns behind the executive mansion, kept cows, hogs and hens in them. When...
Exception. In Chicago, Negroes held an anti-lynching rally, got mad at a heckler, threatened to lynch...