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...Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the Monkey." --Mark Twain...
...After hearing Kennan describe Siberia's prison camps, Mark Twain exclaimed: "If such a government cannot be overthrown otherwise than by dynamite, then thank God for dynamite...
...Status Symbol. The child classics run from Dean Swift to Tom Swift, from Defoe and his immortal castaway to Mark Twain's raft, adrift forever on the Mississippi. Alice is still in Wonderland, and the Ancient Mariner is there to remind the buyer that man was a poet before he learned prose and that a child who is fobbed off with baby-talk doggerel is not only being robbed but nudged into the cozy horrors of the remedial-reading set. Treasure Island and The Voyages of Dr. Doolittle may still be bought, and it is a good thing...
...Spirits Fail." He came late to the field he has made intuitively his own. John Franklin Enders was born in Hartford, Conn., in 1897, the son of a banker and grandson of a founder of Aetna Life Insurance Co. He has a childhood memory of Mark Twain, a friend of the family, coming to call in a characteristic white suit. From St. Paul's, where he rowed in the crew, played hockey and football. Enders went to Yale, only to have his education interrupted by World War I. He joined the Naval Reserve Flying Corps, became a flight instructor...
...Know the Milky Way? (by Karl Wittlinger) presents two actors playing twelve roles in a search for one man's identity. They never find it. Hal Holbrook (best known for his Mark Twain act) touchingly plays the hero, a childlike German veteran of World War II whose tormented self-quest has made him a patient in a mental institution. George Voskovec plays his psychiatrist and all other speaking roles in a virtuoso acting stint. In pursuit of "psychodramatic therapy," doctor and patient enact Holbrook's life until he winds up as a daredevil motorcyclist in an act called...