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What was Earl Long up to? Well, in his race for a third term as Governor, it would sure be nice to be able to pose as a martyr, to be able to claim that the durned legislature had adjourned without even giving him a chance to be heard. Explained Lieutenant Governor Lether Frazar, a staunch Longman: "The adjournment will earn him 100,000 votes...
...Dreyfus affair that deglamorized high society for Proust. Jewish on his mother's side, he courageously declared himself a Dreyfusard and helped to circulate the first petition for Dreyfus' release. Ironically, when Dreyfus was finally released, Proust found him as unappealing an ex-martyr as the other socialites did. Mme. Straus said, "What a pity we can't choose someone else for our innocent," a line of the Duchesse de Guermantes in Remembrance. The laconic Dreyfus was credited with two apocryphal lines, "I've never had a moment's peace since I left Devil...
...descended from both Lorenzo de' Medici, an early antagonist of the Dominican, and Giovambat-tista Ridolfi, one of the priest's loyal supporters-is clearly an admirer of Savonarola. He feuds pompously with previous biographers, argues expertly and with almost contemporary urgency in defense of the contentious martyr. The reader may reflect that the excesses of body and spirit against which Savonarola thundered were the underside of the same secular Renaissance that produced Michelangelo and Leonardo. It was an age of triumphant humanism, within and without the church, and Savonarola, as Ridolfi relates approvingly, set himself against...
Last week Dr. Grubbe, 84, lay in Chicago's Swedish Covenant Hospital, apparently recovering from surgery for cancer resulting from his work with Crookes tubes. It had been his 92nd operation. The first X-ray martyr-a victim of the rays' effects before their nature was recognized-has proved to be one of the toughest...
...index and little fingers of his hand. Dr. Grubbe had prepared himself for their loss by practicing household chores with his thumb and middle fingers. At week's end he had regained enough strength to renew his campaign for safety measures against the hazards of radiation. Said Martyr Grubbe: "Both Russia and America must stop exploding nuclear bombs immediately. I know what radiation...