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...publisher of some of the best 19th century fiction, from Edgar Allan Poe to James Fenimore Cooper, it enjoyed a nationwide vogue. But reading tastes change, and by 1897 Post circulation had wasted to 2,000 from a peak of 90,000; the magazine was sold to Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, a former Maine dry goods clerk who had demonstrated an early flair for publishing. Starting with a weekly called the Tribune and Farmer, Curtis, with some help from his wife, moved in 1883 into the neglected field of women's publications with the Ladies' Home Journal...
...bulletproof glass and plastic cage in which Adolf Eichmann will sit when he goes on trial. The cage, declare the Israelis, is both to shield Eichmann from assassination by an enraged spectator and to prevent a sympathizer from slipping him a vial of poison such as allowed Hermann Göring to escape the hangman's noose during the Nürnberg War Crimes trials after World...
...Your article of July 25 left your readers with a definite and correct impression that I was in the "soup." In view of the occurrence at Hermann, Mo., January 19, would appreciate getting me out of the "soup" for your readers' sake-and mine...
...Louis Post-Dispatch Crime Reporter Link was charged with first-degree murder after shooting his part-time handyman during an altercation about the burning of his cottage. The Hermann, Mo. jury accepted his plea of self-defense, acquitted...
Shades of Hermann Göring! Give Herr Strauss nuclear weapons and a brass band, and the tune would be: "Here we go again!" As an ex-prisoner of war, I say raus...