Word: mccosmic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aimed at him-that he possessed "the greatest mind of the 14th Century" - did Bertie, as well as Dante, a disservice.* So have the oversimplified pictures of McCormick as a feudal lord of the manor, aping the English aristocrats he professes to detest; as a fascist menace; as "Col. McCosmic," the frustrated military strategist; as a crackpot Midas...
Author McCormick believes he has repaired his academic deficiency by reading "many, many books" in his post-college years. In 50 McCosmic pages which the publisher recommends in the cover blurb as "powerful, closely-reasoned . . .sound in scholarship, plenary in concept and exhaustively documented," Colonel McCormick sets forth some of his self-taught discoveries and conclusions. Samples...
...foreign staff, resigned. Into his job stepped Editor Paul Scott Mowrer. Other able craftsmen remained, among them Lloyd Downs Lewis, managing editor, drama critic and biographer; sage, literary Howard Vincent O'Brien, editorial page columnist; Cartoonists Vaughn Shoemaker and Cecil Jensen, creator of "Colonel McCosmic...
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