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...award-winning orator, the young Keyes was confident of his ability to capture audiences, but wasn't sure his speeches contained the right message. The youngest and the first black to win the American Legion's national public speaking championship, Keyes was only 16 when a synagogue asked him to prepare a reflection...
...College's support for public service to its support for athletics. The students who want to do public service get a cramped three-floor building and a skeleton crew; those involved with athletics get enormous and expensive athletic facilities on both sides of the river and a legion of coaches and support staff...
...American Legion is founded in Paris...
...them--now become one of the stars of an anti-star system--lived and died in Chicago. Reclusive, poor and harmlessly mad, Henry Darger (1892-1973) was one of the legion of those who fall through the cracks in American life, never to emerge again. Brought up from age eight in the miseries of Catholic boys' homes (and later in an asylum for feebleminded children, from which he managed to escape at 16), he supported himself for decades doing menial work in several Catholic hospitals. Intensely, not to say neurotically, pious, he went to Mass as often as five times...
...will take much more than a motivated President to pass McCain-Feingold. Its enemies are legion and passionate and constitute one of the most peculiar assemblies ever to conspire in Washington. As a cause, killing the bill unites the Christian Coalition with the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Right to Life Committee with the National Education Association. "We don't agree with the A.C.L.U. on very much, but we're going to work very closely on these issues," says Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the N.R.L.C...