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...Burden to their Parents or Country" in which he calmly unfolded a grotesque scheme whereby delectable one-year-old youngsters be sold for food--to be "Stewed, Roasted, Baked, or Boiled." He grew tired of the endless predictions of a well-known astronomer named Partridge. So, posing as Isaac Bickerstaff, astronomer, he made some "Predictions for the Year 1708" which solemnly forecast the immediate demise of Astronomer Partridge in one of the greatest hoaxes of the time. He outraged prim Queen Anne by his vulgarity in "The Tale of a Tub" which cost him preferment. But his "Drapier's Letters...
Died. William Isaac Purvis, 66, who was hanged for murder in 1894, escaped death when his head slipped through the noose, was later pardoned; of heart disease; in Lumberton, Miss. Twenty-six years after his near-execution, when another man confessed to the murder for which Purvis was convicted, Mississippi voted Will Purvis a shamefaced $5,000 "for services rendered to the State...
TURBULENT YEARS-Isaac F. Marcosson-Dodd, Mead...
While they are in power, Europe's dictators, premiers and tycoons seem to be sitting solidly on their thrones, or behind them. Just how rapidly they can lose their strength, how fast and far they can fall, and how quickly they can be forgotten, is demonstrated in Isaac Marcosson's reminiscences of Europe's heroes of 15 years ago. The work of a veteran Sateve-post contributor, Turbulent Years' 18 chapters include sketches of Trotsky, Sun Yatsen, Calles, an essay on dictators in general, as Marcosson saw them. Some samples...
...toed shoes, was considered peculiar by his mates. They were quite right. When he was hardly past 30, Maxwell invented electro-magnetic waves (e.g., wireless waves) out of his head, then proved mathematically that their speed must equal that of light. British physical scientists rank Maxwell second only to Isaac Newton. His immortal set of four equations, deemed a thing of beauty by scientific esthetes, is Exhibit A for apprentice theorists...