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...Kilrain's unpredictable death last week, the first display of editorial prescience the monthly has made since Henry L. Mencken & George Jean Nathan started Mercury for Alfred A. Knopf 14 years ago; the most noteworthy editorial happening in the Mercury since Paul Palmer bought it in 1935 and shrank it to pocket size...
...Magellan's cruelty threatened to alienate even his own bodyguard, he arranged to shipwreck the 40 mutineers on a reef, succeeded only in losing a ship. At the Strait of Magellan his food ship St. Anthony deserted, was never heard from again. Scurvy struck in the Pacific, rations shrank to leather ship fittings, sawdust, rats, dead comrades' giblets. After 98 days of this horror, having sighted only two barren islands, they reached fertile Guam. By this time his men had chalked 85 murders against Magellan. Out of the 540 days the voyage had lasted, only two weeks, when...
...watched," he later wrote, "I began to wonder how the world must appear to a ladybug: what the sensation would be if my six feet of height dwindled down and down until I was hardly a quarter of an inch long; if I shrank to a thousandth, a ten-thousandth ... a millionth of my present bulk. Like Alice, I began to feel I was 'shutting up like a telescope...
Like Samuel Gompers in his later years, Mr. Green was not greatly oppressed nor did he struggle very hard. Unions thrive during periods of recovery but his first nine years in office were a period of first boom and then depression, and A. F. of L. memberships shrank steadily from 2,800,000 to 2,100,000. During that era corruption and abuse permeated several craft unions but Labor politics made it hard for Bill Green to take action even against known A. F. of L. racketeers. His crowning ineptness was that unlike John L. Lewis, he never learned...
...true, here was something that might mark a turning point in the war, but the 200,000 shrank on inspection. Hardworking General Pozas was able to lead a Leftist offensive, but like all the rest it petered out before the third morning with no definite advantage...