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Thereafter, the reader may find the rest of Mots d'H cures compulsive, as one horrendous bilingual audio-pun follows another. L'lle deja accornee . . . Satinees cornees translates as "The [lord of the] island already has horns! Satiny corneas . . ." but it is really Little Jack Horner who sat in a corner...
...search for life's meaning also runs through End of the Road. "In a sense, I am Jacob Horner," the book's narrator begins, with typical uncertainty. Then he conducts a tour along the "weatherless" days of his life. Hornet suffers low-pressure areas during which he ceases to function. Hypnotized by the multitude of life's choices, he can make no choice at all. The novel is partly autobiographical. It is laid in Maryland, where Earth grew up; Horner teaches English at Wicomico State Teachers College, while Earth teaches English at the Buffalo campus...
When the Post & Times-Star ran that story last September, Editor Dick Thornburg had a hunch there might be more to tell. He instructed Reporter Jim Horner, 32, to case the probate court to see if it was involved in any other high-fee hanky-panky. Horner has been on the story ever since, and his byline has been on the front page almost daily for over two months...
Case of the Missing Heirs. City Solicitor McClain, Horner discovered, had been doing some moonlighting of his own-as attorney for the same $38,977 estate that Jackson-Payne had worked over. Only McClain, whose services had been legal enough, had received a whopping fee of $8,625. Working at the rate of $25 an hour, he would have had to put in 345 hours to earn his paya staggering amount of time to spend on so small an estate...
...Cincinnati's other daily, the Enquirer, was giving them only perfunctory treatment. Though both papers are owned by Scripps-Howard, they operate independently. "We decided it would not be fair to pick out individuals in a few selected cases," explained Enquirer Publisher Francis Dale. He had reason. Reporter Horner had discovered that Enquirer Court Reporter Tom Mercer and Columnist Frank Weikel had both served recently as appraisers...