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...city's five other newspapers?a concentration that makes Philadelphia the publishing capital of the former colonies?had either reported the Declaration or were preparing stories on it. The Evening Post and Dunlap's Pennsylvania Packet have published the entire text, and Printer Henrich Miller has translated the "Erklärung" into German for his Pennsylvanischer Staatsbote...
...entered [the White House]and having twice or thrice rung a bell which nobody answered ... on the ground floor, as divers other gentlemen (mostly with their hats on, and their hands in their pockets) were doing very leisurely ... The greater portion of this assemblage . . . had no particular business there, that anybody knew of. A few were closely eyeing the movables, as if to make quite sure that President [John Tyler], who was far from popular, had not made away with any of the furniture, or sold the fixtures for his private benefit...
...question of who killed Boy Staunton was rung out in The Manticore, which took Staunton's alcoholic son through psychoanalysis. Now, in World of Wonders, a magician named Magnus Eisengrim appears, claiming he did it. Eisengrim is revealed (the author's opera cape swishes through empty air) to have been the premature child born on that fateful night in Deptford...
...having acknowledged the fact, Bok passes on, as if the number of black and Spanish surname Ph.D.'s was an act of God beyond the control of the blameless universities. Affirmative action law recognizing that discrimination at one rung of the ladder affected hiring at all higher rungs applied rules to student admissions as well as to faculty hiring...
...semi-successful, a make-or-break case.. If there are six planes of consciousness in the spiritual world of the Boston Red Sox organization, Brayton has made it halfway; an exemplary mortal. He began at the bottom, with the Elmira Red Sox. He actually transcended the next rung, skipping the Winterhaven farm team, and played for all of 1974 for the Red Sox in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Then last year he made the Bristol (Conn.) Red Sox, of the Eastern League, Double A ball, a prayer away from the Pawtucket Red Sox which is in turn a prayer...