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Eight weeks before he died, last year, in his stucco house in McCook, Neb., the late, great ex-Senator George William Norris finished dictating his autobiography. Fighting Liberal is not a great book. His heroic battles in Congress were no longer vivid in its old (83), tired author's mind. Like many another old man, George Norris at the end was reliving his youth. As the story of a boyhood in the frontier, post-Civil War Midwest, Fighting Liberal is authentic Americana...
Daniel G. McCook-Jacquelyn Spiers (Arlington...
...This World. In McCook, Neb., Pfc. Ernest Olivier spun in a jitterbugging step, reached for his jiving partner's hand, plunged out the second-story window of the dance hall...
...shaded town of McCook, Neb. (pop. 6,212), the telegraph office was swamped with wires, and the florists ran out of flowers before noon. The first citizen of McCook, an old radical named George W. Norris, was dead...
Finally defeated in 1942, George Norris retired to the quiet, shady house in McCook. He settled down to smoke his long-stemmed pipe, to listen to the radio, to muse over the Nebraska countryside, and to dictate his autobiography. He began to grumble that he could not "stay quiet and live...