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...John L. Rawbon of Panama City, Florida, has one answer. A longtime admirer of Governor Wallace, he wrote the governor last month...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: Governor Lonelyhearts | 3/9/1976 | See Source »

...what Wallace does when he campaigns, channeling bitterness into votes by transforming any land he steps on into an instant Confederacy, an instant defeated territory. He opens the wounds in all who listen to him and promises retribution for slights that are hardly imagined. As his admirer John Rawbon wrote, where Wallace goes, "the Confederacy still lives...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: Governor Lonelyhearts | 3/9/1976 | See Source »

What might have been the first "expose" sheet and was definitely the first college periodical, "The Telltale," predated the Philomusarian by seven years. The eleventh issue declares that the writer has "found out several Clubs in College," including "The Mock Club" founded in 1769 composed of "Persons Rawbon'd humpback'd and Monophthalmic." The publication was short-lived, however, and the editors organized themselves into the Spy Club, whose members discussed such questions as "Whether there be any Standard of Truth," and "Whether it be Fornication to lye with ones Sweetheart before marriage...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Crime: A Nazi at Lowell, Spy Club, 1766 Rebellion, | 11/21/1958 | See Source »

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