Word: loree
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...Picture Editor Arnold Drapkin. If their years of service are added together, Jackson and Drapkin have been around 19 years longer than the magazine itself, which turned 62 last March. Their rise from office boys to positions of honor and responsibility adds a gratifying chapter to Horatio Alger lore...
...famous leading man in the nation's collective unconscious. What Americans carry in their minds is not the historical reality of the cowboy but the myth as it came to them in books and movies, the cowboy according to Zane Grey and John Wayne. Americans, tutored in the lore from childhood, almost unconsciously see cowboy stories as morality plays. Good guys do battle with bad guys. Right generally triumphs. The bad guys end in the hands of the law. In the American understanding of the myth, cowboys may sometimes operate outside the law or in the absence...
With so attentive an audience, Ballard, a devoted student of Titanic lore, could not resist bringing up a controversial subject: the actions of Stanley Lord, captain of the liner Californian, who Ballard said was definitely within reach of the sinking ship and may have ignored its white distress flares. Lord claimed at investigations of the tragedy that the Californian was more than 19 miles north of the sinking ship. "The Californian was inside of ten miles, perhaps as close as four miles," Ballard insisted, "and there is no doubt it could have gone in there and rescued those people...
...combines wit with understatement, is canny enough to give the flamboyant Bunting his head, quoting not only his anecdotes but such side comments as his thoughts on flounder ("I don't eat nothing with both eyes on the same side of the head"). The book is filled with whiteliquor lore, including a description of all the impurities to be found in moonshine: "Maggots spawn in mash. Rats, snakes, owls, possums, foxes, and other small creatures find their way to it and drink it and get drunk and fall in and drown." What Wilkinson does best, though, is evoke the spirits...
...that initially cost as little as $10,000. The flames that leaped out of the valley and slashed through the overgrown chaparral made few distinctions when they reached the canyon rim. Abraham Nasatir, 80, a professor emeritus of history at San Diego State University and an expert on California lore, watched the fire consume some 500,000 historical papers he had collected. He was working on a nearly finished history of the British in California, a manuscript that had occupied him for 16 years. "I put it down," said Nasatir, "and got out with only the clothes on my back...