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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mansfield leadership of Congress as the New Frontiers approach. His apparent strategy is to give them enough rope, which is the classic maneuver of power politics. They are being consulted and shown every deference." Wrote the New York Post's liberal Columnist Max Lerner: "Call it a trivial item, but it is not without its meaning: I am speaking of the ritual President-elect Kennedy has established of meeting the press out in the open with each of his Cabinet appointees, hatless and coatless, in sunshine or frost. It could easily become a fetish...
...five schools, to none for very long, fell into the company of badmen called the Jay-hawkers, stole horses, developed a taste for "tanglefoot," and woke up with a hangover in the Union Army. Scholar Russell is well dug in behind about 500 footnotes and a bibliography of 259 items, but perhaps the reader should look for the odd bits: the unforgettable character who used his slain enemy's ear as a watch fob; the horse thief who won Bill's admiration by running 18 miles barefoot through snow and prickly pear; the U.S. Cavalry troop with which...
...Separation. Most Americans, when they hear about conflicts between "church and state," think of certain concrete issues that reach the headlines. On most of these, Murray has taken liberal and eloquent positions. Item: on government funds for parochial schools, he thinks simple justice demands it, but argues that Catholic pressure for it should be confined to argument and slow persuasion. Item: on censorship, he upholds the right of the church to guide its own faithful and to convince others with its moral judgments, but by persuasion, not boycotts. There is danger, he suggests, in reading bad books, but also "great...
MAIL ORDER LIFE INSURANCE will be a major item in the new catalogue of Chicago's Aldens, Inc., fourth largest mail order company, if the Illinois Insurance Department approves. By eliminating agents' commissions (often 50% of first-year premium), Aldens plans to sell its insurance at lower prices...
...French demoiselles of the early 1900's fall in love exclusively with young army officers with mustaches? Or were mustaches just de rigeur for all men of the period? I found myself wondering about this during some of the less enthralling moments of The Grand Maneuver, a capricious little item now showing at the Brattle...