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Author Fessier piles Pelion on Ossa by declaring, at the end of his little old book: "The characters and situations in this work are wholly fictional and imaginative, and do not portray and are not intended to portray any actual persons or parties...
...promptly appealed but the next day a Federal grand jury in Topeka piled a Pelion of indictments upon the Ossa of his conviction. Indictments were returned against him for using the mails to defraud, for sending raised checks through the mail, for sending false telephone company statements through the mail, for misapplying $146,000 of a national bank's funds. Those indicted on various counts included not only Father Finney. Son Finney, Leland Caldwell (Son Finney's assistant) and Tom Boyd, ex-State Treasurer, but also Carl W. McKeen, president of the National Bank of Topeka...
...announced that he would dry up the city in 48 hours. Two years later, disgusted with politics, politicians and Philadelphia, he returned to the Marine Corps, leaving Philadelphia as wet as ever. Scarcely had he arrived at his new post at San Diego when he piled Ossa on the Pelion of his unpopularity by having his Navy host (whom he ranked) court-martialed for drunkenness...
Cartoonist Art Young writes about cartoons with illustrations from his own work. Says he: "If a public man is fat and his nose is long, good caricature in the opinion of some caricaturists is to magnify these characteristics very much?to pile Pelion on Ossa. To others the natural is almost funny enough...
...discussion is interesting--especially for those being discussed. One has something of the feeling of Mr. Cobb's goldfish when all his moral traits and characteristics are dragged triumphantly to the light. Sometimes, too, there is a temptation to wonder if the critics, in their zeal, are not piling Pelion upon Ossa, and driving their proud victims to further limits in order to uphold the reputation laid at their thresholds. For above all we of the younger generation are anxious to please--and if we are expected to be shocking, shall we not do our best to give satisfaction...