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...much litigation, but history buffs are in for a disappointment. The Shadow of Blooming Grove has some important omissions. Blank spaces are used in a dozen or so places, wherever the biographer attempts to quote from Harding's love letters to Ohio Matron Carrie Phillips. Harding's nephew, Ohio Psychiatrist George T. Harding III, got a court order prohibiting publication of them. Readers will just have to use their imaginations...
...Pete was the apple of his father's sporting eye, nobody else was interested in a 5 ft. 7 in., 145-lb. infielder. Nobody, except Uncle Buddy Bloebaum, who just happened to be a Cincinnati scout. At 18, Nephew got his contract and a trip to the Class D Geneva, N.Y,, Redlegs. He hit only .277, was ignored in the minor-league draft. Then he started to grow, stretching 4 in. and putting on 50 lbs., all of it muscle. In 1961, he swatted .331 at Tampa, and .330 at Macon, Ga., the following year. Still unimpressed, Cincinnati invited...
...Kilday did not think the Tonkin resolution constituted a declaration of war, but he did think that "abundant authority exists to make clear that a condition of war between states may exist without a formal declaration." For precedents, he began back in 1800 when Supreme Court Justice Bushrod Washington (nephew to George) held that some minor naval skirmishing between France and the U.S. amounted to a state...
...adopted), and the hawking of a patent disinfectant called Electrozone. If his promotion was good, his financing was inadequate, and if both were good, someone cheated him out of his commission. He borrowed from his brothers, his friends, their friends and his children, and lectured his nephew Winston on politics and the art of prose composition...
...explosives, and in physics they are taught how to build a bunker so as to make it safe against various kinds of allied shelling and bombing. If they do well at these lessons, they are rewarded by being declared "Uncle Ho's good nephew (or niece)." The following first-and second-grade arithmetic problems, taken from a textbook published by Hanoi's Liberation Publishing House and widely used in V.C. country, illustrate the approach...