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...Summers, a nostalgic, self-sufficient mountain man, the finest character Guthrie has produced. But even more important, both books were given unity and direction by the utilization of physical movement through great distance in space. Guthrie conveyed this as successfully as did Tolstoy in War and Peace or Mark Twain in Huckleberry Finn. In These Thousand Hills he gave himself less opportunity to utilize this potential...
...such distinguished visitors as the future Edward VII. an inspection of Cooper Union was a must. As the years went by, everyone from Mark Twain to Woodrow Wilson to Bertrand Russell lectured there. The Union gave Inventor Michael Pupin his start in life; it trained Sculptor Saint-Gaudens. Its library was the favorite haunt of an immigrant boy named Felix Frankfurter. "It was the place." said Frankfurter later, "that first stretched my mind...
Your Harry Truman cover story is superb. And Mark Twain would have loved those lines about Harry Truman wanting to be buried in a mulberry coffin so he could "go through hell crackin' and poppin'." Two Missouri boys-Mark Twain and Harry Truman. Boys to be proud...
...until it is found and its depths are plumbed and proved. Mountaineering has its classic literature−Annapurna, The White Tower, etc.−but caves, mysterious, magnificent and challenging as mountains, still await their authors. Most Americans best know a cave as the sort of Stygian hole where Mark Twain marooned Becky Thatcher and Tom Sawyer. The society of the cave-wise in the U.S. contains a handful of scientists and spelunkers, most of them active in the National Speleological Society, whose 1,200-odd members are organized in 40 U.S. "Grottoes...
...Radio Workshop (Fri. 8:30 p.m., CBS). The Eternal Joan, with excerpts from Anatole France, G. B. Shaw, Mark Twain, Voltaire...