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Soon Dayton was bursting with ballyhoo. Local stores sold bales of cotton apes and bundles of buttons proclaiming "Your Old Man's a Monkey." Robinson's drugstore featured a "Monkey Fizz." The town's only hostelry, the Hotel Aqua, raised its rates to $8 a 'day...
At 33, brash, bright F. (for Francis) Lee Bailey is the hottest criminal lawyer in the U.S. Last month he got a Cleveland jury to acquit Dr. Sam Sheppard of killing his wife; this week comes the sex-tinged murder trial of Dr. Carl Coppolino in New Jersey; after that...
Beyond the Pale. Taylor's biography fully illuminates a woman whose antipathy was by no means limited to booze. "Stated loosely," the author writes, "Mrs. Nation was against alcohol, tobacco, sex, politics, government (national, state and local), the Masonic Lodge, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan." At...
William Jennings Bryan once called him "Mexico's Sir Galahad." Yet Hollywood portrayed him as a cruel, simple-minded bandit who poured honey on his prisoners for the delight of watching the ants devour them. His widow denied stories of his atrocities, said in his defense that "If he...
Vote of Confidence. Solid victories were awarded to such veterans as Volpe (63% of the vote), Case (62%), Maine's doughty three-term G.O.P. Senator Margaret Chase Smith (59%), Delaware's Republican Senator Caleb Boggs (60%), and West Virginia's Democratic Senator Jennings Randolph (59%). Youngish up...