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Faced with a lack of cash, hoarding what it has for welfare payments and schools, Michigan had missed a state payroll for the second week in a row. Altogether last week 26,000 employees, including stenographers, state troopers, doctors and "Soapy" Williams himself ($866), went without paychecks. In Lansing the...
"Where foreign policy is concerned, as you know, Chris," said Dulles, "I have always felt that there could not and should not be any interlopers between the President and the Secretary of State." It struck one who was there that Dulles was recalling how his uncle, Woodrow Wilson's...
Endurance, by Alfred Lansing. Sir Ernest Shackleton's foolish-heroic expedition of 1915, one of the most audacious assaults that the Antarctic ever defeated, a breathless saga re-created in well-modulated prose.
No Prayer of Rescue. Yet Shackleton would not be dissuaded, and Alfred Lansing has crisply re-created one of the most audacious assaults that Antarctica ever defeated. Shackleton sailed from Buenos Aires in October 1914, with 69 dogs, no radio transmitter, and a motley crew of 27 volunteers. He put...
Author Lansing, a onetime United Press rewriteman and Collier's staff writer, draws heavily on scholarly studies of the expedition, has also carefully rechecked the sources. And he has a good newspaperman's respect for telling in unexcited prose the breathless story of men in peril. Dominating all...