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...those flourishing in England. He took into his confidence one John Webbe, contracted with him to "dispose the Materials, make Abstracts, and write what shall be necessary for promoting the Thing &C . . . B. F. to be at all Expense." But perfidious Mr. Webbe took the scheme to another printer and beat Franklin's General Magazine to the streets by three days with his (the first) American Magazine. Mr. Franklin, Philadelphia Postmaster at the time, retaliated by forbidding his post riders to carry the rival printer's American Mercury, a newspaper...
...Oklahoman at Harvard", whose impressions of that ethereal personage known as the typical Harvard Man appears in today's CRIMSON, can necessarily perceive Him only through the glasses of Oklahoma. The Saturday Evening Post, College Humor, and sundry, other periodicals who spend some little amount of printer's ink from time to time worrying about this same Person are also colored by their own personal bias...
...General at a banquet in Texas ten years ago," said Printer Crawford, "and for the next three or four years I spent a few days every year with him at Juarez where he was a corps commander. He fled from Mexico when Federalist troops were trying to put him in front of a firing squad. Right now he is the most peaceful-minded man in the United States. He has put away his sword and his pistol and is looking for business opportunities-possibly in Chicago. He left my house this morning and I can't say where...
...Though he was destined for the ministry, after two years' schooling his father realized that Ben would do better in trade, took him out of school, made him assist in the family candle-shop. When Ben was twelve he was made apprentice to his older brother James, a printer; soon he was contributing anonymous articles, signed Mrs. Silence Dogood, to his brother's New England Courant. But Ben and James could not get along; at 17 Ben ran away, sailed to Manhattan, walked to Philadelphia. There he worked in the printing shop of one Keimer. He made many...
Masons, printed an almanac (Poor Richard's), was a colonel in the French & Indian War, founded a hospital. He became the biggest printer in the Colonies and was made deputy postmaster-general. His electrical experiments (demonstration of the identity of lightning and electricity) won him a Fellowship in the Royal Society. He was sent to London to get Pennsylvania freed of the Penns and made a crown colony...