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With his ornate cane, his velvet clothes, his rich Englishman's air of snootiness, Rivington's manner alone would have made him a hate object for 1773's scruffy liberal patriots. But he was also a helluva writer, and his witty barbs and protective air toward the Tory community drove the patriots to hysteria...
...hundred years ago, "Jemmy" Rivington, a popinjay Tory editor whose anti-liberal scallawaggery would have delighted Spiro Agnew or Richard Nixon, founded "Rivington's New-York Gazetteer...
...only microbes had been discovered. To the Tory and British press, the rebels were just as inevitably ruffians, illiterates, mongrels and cowards who refused to face a fight squarely. During British Cavalry Colonel Banastre Tarleton's fiery raids in New York's rebellious upper Westchester County, Rivington's Gazette reported that "the rebel officers and men quitted their jades, and threw themselves over the fences to gain the swamp." Tarleton "returned to the camp of the rebels, burned and destroyed their whole baggage, and . . . several houses." Actually, the "rebel camp" was the town of Bedford-which Tarleton...
...Little New Deal. After World War I, he married Constance Rivington Russell, whose father was the wealthy law partner of Eleanor Roosevelt's father. They settled down in a rambling white frame Colonial house in Concord. There Winant took up his political career. He scorned political machines, political patronage, was a dismal campaigner. But New Hampshire was ripe for his liberal, common-man political philosophy. He got elected to the State Legislature; in 1925 he beat Colonel Frank Knox, now Secretary of the Navy, for Governor, broke the New Hampshire anti-third-term tradition...
...Christian morals that they pay their respects to every Sunday morning when they don't have too big a hangover." In parsing Sammy, he tries to find the Glick goal and comprehend the Glick means, even returns to Sammy's grubby childhood surroundings in Manhattan's Rivington Street, a thickly packed Jewish section...