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The hymn (air by Thomas Preston, words by Godfrey Lias) was far from music to the ears of the Manchester Guardian, which huffed editorially: "This has a ring of 'confound their politics, frustrate their knavish tricks'-the words now rightly dropped from our national anthem." The Guardian was...
This first novel is the year's most beautifully written love story. Set in Budapest in the lost era between the two world wars, it begins with a casual pickup on the Danube Corso and ends in heartbreak as poignant as the last act of Camille. The book, like...
Republican Williams' target was a pudgy bull's-eye he has blasted before, onetime Bootlegger and Numbers King William G. ("Big Bill") Lias, whose badly distributed 360 lbs. cause him to resemble the false-bottomed gasoline truck he devised in the '20s to haul West Virginia moonshine...
To protect its claim, the Government put Lias into receivership in 1952, then decided Big Bill probably could run the federalized race track more efficiently than anyone else. Lias, who paid himself $65,000 a year as general manager, asked a modest $55,000 to do the job for Uncle...
With a court-appointed receiver and Judge Watkins keeping eyes on him, Lias has become a grudgingly effective overseer. Since 1952, Wheeling Downs has paid $4,000,000 in federal, state and local taxes and provided its stockholders a $50,000 dividend. Net worth of the racing association has climbed...