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...required. Yet, not counting among friends or acquaintances any member of the academies, I gingerly proffered my Cantabrigian parchment. After a series of formal exchanges in my very best (but still quite mediocre) French, I found myself with a flowery endorsement by the secrétaire perpétuel of the Academy of Moral Sciences. I was soon part of a world of emerald tapestries, of rooms where one can admire the handcrafted handles of the swords that each academician receives upon election. Suddenly, the much-vaunted French “defense of high culture” gained new meaning.One...
DOROTHY PENNINGTON TUEL...
Weatherbeaten. In Reedsport, Ore., Lifer John Tuel, who had broken out of the Salem State Penitentiary in the midst of an Oregon rainstorm, stumbled into jail ten days later, pleaded: "Lock me up. I just can't stand this weather...
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