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...damned liar," he wrote adding, "Never trust the artist. Trust the tale." Lawrence, of course, was right. When a Dick Cavett coaxes a writer in front of the camera for a half-hour of high gossip, the writer often turns into a sly little prevaricator. Or when a Herbert Mitgang lets an author expatriate about his oeuvre in balanced prose you know no one speaks in... Writers should not be invited to "ideal" dinner parties. They ought to stay home and write...
...Herbert P. Gleason '50, the attorney representing MGH, said that "the house is really not of landmark importance." A study done by the hospital found that the house is "simply not notable," Gleason added...
...Herbert L. Abrams, Cook Professor of Radiology, said in a news conference Tuesday that 86 million people would die immediately after a 400-megaton attack on "urban and population centers: in the United States, and an additional 50 million fatalities "are anticipated" during the shelter period of several weeks following the attack...
Aging was wonderful medicine for one President who left office widely despised: Herbert Hoover. He was 59 in 1933; the Depression shantytowns all over America were called Hoovervilles. By the time he died at 90 he was a Grand Old Man. Harry Truman, for all his fierce partisanship, had done much to rehabilitate Hoover, appointing him chairman of a well-publicized commission on Government reorganization. Historians would never come to credit Hoover with effective measures against the Depression, but people had long since stopped thinking he had caused it. On into his 80s, pink-cheeked and bright-eyed, he gave...
...have occupied unused, white-owned land in the countryside, to the embarrassment of the Prime Minister. "Why do you rush to occupy farms without authority?" he demanded during a recent rally near Fort Victoria. "Hunger!" came the reply from the crowd. Bristling at the charges of Health Minister Dr. Herbert Ushewokunze that he was not moving fast enough to help the blacks, Mugabe two weeks ago sacked his fiery critic...