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After five months in Johns Hopkins Hospital, following a stroke and heart attack which doctors predicted would be fatal, H. L. Mencken checked out for home, sardonically tipped his hat to the Y.M.C.A. as he passed, then asked what was playing at the local theater. Told it was Tarzan's Peril, Mencken replied firmly, "I shall not be there...
Next week is Brotherhood Week. This newspaper like others throughout the nation has received a request to help publicize the Week. Even Henry L. Mencken in one of his sourest moods could have found little reason to quarrel with its intent: "A rededication to the basic ideals of respect for people and human rights...
Disturber of the Peace, by William Manchester. A briskly inadequate biography of H. L. Mencken; best when it lets Mencken himself do the talking (TIME...
Disturber of the Peace, by William Manchester. A brisk if not fully penetrating biography of H. L. Mencken; best when it lets Mencken himself do the talking (TIME...
Disturber of the Peace, by William Manchester. A brisk if not fully penetrating biography of H. L. Mencken; best when it lets Mencken himself do the talking (TIME...