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GASTON E. MARQUE
In the late ith Century piracy was a flourishing business-not only in the Spanish Main but off the North American coast, in the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean and the East Indies. And the line between pirate and privateer was as thin as the line between hijacker and bootlegger...
Prior to perpetrating such pap for gullibles, young Erskine Gwynne, son of the late famed international polo player Edward Gwynne, reamed high explosive shells in a French munition factory (1915-17), soldiered in the A. E. F. (1917-18), and worked his way around the world on cargo boats (1919...
French aristocracy has, in the main, a healthy contempt for le T. S. F.;* but, recently, when famed coutourier Paul Poiret spoke over ether waves at Paris, he was widely listened to - for M. Poiret had a grievance. He complained - as does many a great artist who executes the commissions...
Wendell Phillips' phrase, about John Brown having "letters of marque from God," accurately describes the religious zealot who conducted midnight reprisals of lives and livestock against the proponents of slavery in "Bloody Kansas" and who, in 1858, withdrew to Canada to formulate a design as unusual as it was drastic...