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...ROBBED THE ROBBER BARONS, by Andy Logan. The shoddy story of Colonel William d'Alton Mann, who looked like Santa Claus but carried a sackful of hush money, is told with skill and glee in this brisk biography...
...speak. "Not everyone knows that I had an operation three years ago," began Soviet President Anastas Mikoyan, 70, his voice trem bling. "I feel this now, and it has an effect on my work. Now I find it diffi cult to carry out a big job." A frozen hush fell over the 1,443 members of the Supreme Soviet. They did not dare applaud; after all, they might be witnessing a purge...
...ROBBED THE ROBBER BARONS, by Andy Logan. The shoddy story of Colonel William d'Alton Mann, a courtly Manhattan publisher who looked like Santa Claus but carried a sackful of hush money, is told with skill and glee in this brisk biography...
...Pennsylvania Dutch peasantry on the farm lands and the immigrant Irish and Polish serfs in the coal "patches" upriver. A farm boy, intent on exploring the grounds, dies impaled on the spiked wall, and George bugs out to New York, leaving his lawyer to slip $500 in hush money to the family. Why does a man like this want to be a gentleman? It seems that "becoming a gentleman" was an obsession that Father Abraham had developed and that he thought of as "the Lockwood concern"-concern being the Quaker word for a Friend's special field of good...
Suddenly the Viet Cong ceased firing. In the abrupt hush, bugles sounded, and the Communists charged. It was their first mistake, for it gave the U.S. marksmen their first clear targets and they mowed down wave after wave of the attackers. "The right squad alone was knocking 'em down 30 at a time," recounted the company commander. Four hours later, the Americans, now grown to two badly mauled companies, set up a defensive perimeter atop a hill-enough to hold off the far bigger V.C. force until artillery and tactical-air support could move in. At last the Viet...