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...TIME, April 8, I read to my surprise "Little Anthony Eden was a healthily snobbish Eton schoolboy in tails, starched collar and high hat every day of the week...
...dingy bridal suite of a Philadelphia hotel in February 1861, with Lincoln, the President-elect, listening to Detective Pinkerton's warnings of the plot to assassinate him as he passes through Baltimore next day. The outlines of Author Pratt's story are familiar to every schoolboy, but he vitalizes it with many a contemporary detail. While the war was still only imminent, many a Northern businessman tried to collect his Southern debts. One of them got this reply: "I promise to pay, five minutes after demand, to any northern Abolitionist, the same coin in which we paid John...
...give it to prisoners I have had taken into protective custody to save them from the mob. Take that schoolteacher Dr. Steinruck who used to talk so big! I went with several Party members into his cell. He began to talk with a weeping voice and acted like a schoolboy. He did not act like the man I had expected after so much big talk, so I gave him a good thrashing with my whip...
...pictures. First-rate art was his fine painting of two ladies in hoop skirts playing croquet on a shaded lawn. One of the most prolific of artists, Homer sent back drawings from the front during the Civil War which made the reputation of Harper's Weekly. Every schoolboy knows him today for his vivid canvas, The Gulf Stream, in which a giant Negro is sprawled on the deck of a mastless catboat while sharks circle the derelict. Suave Socialite Edwin Austin Abbey used to have almost as much trouble with his models as Eakins. One of the most popular...
Michoacan, on the Pacific Ocean, is one of the least known of Mexico's 28 states. Yet there is hardly a Mexican schoolboy who is not familiar, for one reason or another, with Morelia, its capital city. There 152 years ago was born Don Agustin de Iturbide. Not even a name north of the Rio Grande, Don Iturbide was a minor Mussolini 100 years ahead of his time. He became dictator of Mexico, was proclaimed Emperor Agustin I only one year after the last Spanish viceroy was driven out. Emperor Agustin reigned for only one winter, left for Europe...