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Willie Francis never quite understood all the hubbub that followed-the appeals to the Louisiana courts, the pleas to the State Pardon Board, the sob stories in the press. When he heard that the Supreme Court had ruled against him, he was just surprised that "one Negro boy could get all those big men" to talk about...
...people of Paris," wrote François Rabelais in the 16th Century, "are so foolish by nature that a juggler, a pardon-peddler, a mule with bells . . . will gather a bigger crowd than a good evangelic preacher ever could." Four centuries later, between 1920 and 1935, Parisian jugglers and pardon-peddlers were gathering one of the biggest, strangest crowds in French history-a throng of U.S. expatriates, fleeing the New World of Harding, Coolidge, and their own disconsolate selves. Says Samuel Putnam, who went to Paris in 1926 to translate the works of Rabelais, and stayed seven years, writing sometimes...
...Crown's sole positive duty is now "to consult, to encourage and to warn." But the King can still-theoretically-without consulting Parliament, disband his country's Army, sell all the Navy's ships, dismiss most of the civil servants, pardon all criminals, close all churches, create every citizen a peer, pick his own Prime Minister, and declare war on anyone he chooses. In practice, no King-or Queen-would dare do one of these things...
...hips, 22½-in. thigh, 13½-in. calf, and 8½-in. ankle -that 21-year-old one from California, name of Marilyn Buferd. "Oh my God," said Miss Buferd, "I never expected it." New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson immediately interviewed her. Had she any foibles? "Pardon me," retorted Miss Buferd icily, "I don't understand...
...almost certainly been railroaded to jail for political purposes, and that the Governor himself was not trying to overthrow civilization. He was a self-made Gilded Age millionaire lawyer of German peasant stock who happened to develop a social conscience. Personally he had little to gain by the pardon and much to lose; in fact, he lost the governorship at the next election, and later could not even get elected Mayor of Chicago. He died a relatively poor man at a relatively early age (55) in 1902, of locomotor ataxia. He was mourned by thousands, among them Poet Vachel Lindsay...