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Among the stubborn ghosts that stalk the mind of modern literate man are the great books he intends to read some day. High on many such lists-behind War and Peace, but well ahead of the Summa Theologica-is Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. From now on, procrastinators will have to find fresh excuses: Gibbon has been streamlined. Dero Saunders, one of the editors of FORTUNE and an old Gibbon fan, has given Decline and Fall a close trim, from 1,400,000 to 200,000 words, without scalping it of all meaning...
...this presidential year the Pennsylvania specimen under closest study is John Fine. To understand him it is necessary to recall the fabulous political background from which he comes. The ghosts of long-dead leaders still stalk Pennsylvania politics. Alignments formed long ago still operate, and the forces that pull and tug at John Fine today were pulling and tugging at John Fine's predecessors when Bob Taft's father was in the White House and Dwight Eisenhower was a youngster in Abilene...
Half asleep as they stalk...
Saints, satans, and Scouts will stalk the streets of Cambridge tonight in celebration of the age-old pagan-Christian holiday, Halloween...
...pulls at his hair and trembles all over, as though he were about to sell his first piece. His thoughts have always been a tangle of baseball scores, Civil War tactical problems, Henry James, personal maladjustments, terrier puppies, literary tide rips, ancient myths and modern apprehensions. Through this jungle stalk the unpredictable ghosts of his relatives in Columbus, Ohio...