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On the newsstands of the U.S. and Canada, more comic books are sold than any other type of magazine. About a quarter of the 80 million comic books that readers buy each month are known as "horror comics," bearing such titles as Tormented, The Thing, Web of Evil. Typical plot...
Although Palestrina's Supplicationes receives top billing on the record, I was most impressed by Byrd's Iustorum Animae. Written for the Feast of All Saints, it was arranged for male voices by Harvard's Professor A. T. Davison. Here is an excellent union of sound and meaning, culminating with...
A few hours later, at noon, the convention met once more, nominated Sparkman, labored wearily through one more demonstration. Said Stevenson: "You have inspected some of the finest political livestock in the U.S. [But] we've reserved until this morning the prize human animal for your approbation." Stevenson was...
"As an institution," said the dissenting opinion, "the electoral college suffered atrophy almost indistinguishable from rigor mortis ... At its best, it is a mystifying and distorting factor in presidential elections which may resolve a popular defeat into an electoral victory. At its worst, it is open to local corruption and...
The maid who arrived in mid-morning to clean the San Francisco apartment of Mrs. Theresa Butler, 60, thought that her employer was dead: she was lying in a half-filled bathtub and could not be roused. The doctor who came at the call of the apartment manager also thought...