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...Webster," the famed frog of Mark Twain's story, who could "get over more ground at one straddle than any animal of his breed you ever see," lost to another freshly caught frog when the rival owner filled Dan'l full of quail shot "pretty near up to his chin...
...Something Should Happen." His father was a Congregational minister in upstate New York, his mother was a friend of Mark Twain (she wrote his funeral elegy) and one of the first women ordained in the Congregational Church. A forceful and free-thinking person (she once sincerely assured her congregation "that if they could find a spiritual up lift elsewhere, there was no reason for coming to church"), Mrs. Eastman spent her last, vigorous year learning to swim, undergoing a Freudian analysis and deciding to leave her church. Her advice to her son, to "live out of yourself persistently," helped...
Bernard De Voto, 51, Harper's columnist and literary historian (Mark Twain's America, Minority Report), won appointment to the Department of the Interior's Advisory Board on National Parks, Historic Sites, Buildings and Monuments...
Some information is more assimilable than other information. Facts, as Mark Twain noted, can be presented in such a way that they merely create "confusion of the mind and congestion of the ducts of thought." The reader's digestion of news will never be "effortless." TIME, however, tries to sift, sort, condense and explain the news by this simple standard: How much effort can an ordinarily educated and intelligent man or woman be expected to use in understanding this story? It's no use saying that 80 million Americans ought to have a thorough grasp of physics...
...letters to the Sacramento Union, and in lectures and letters for many years after, Mark Twain argued for the annexation of Hawaii to the U.S. He sent back able reports on sugar growing, the fertility of the soil, missionary activities (his California newspaper pals began to call him St. Mark), even had the foresight to see the islands as a "commanding sentry-box for an armed squadron." And his humorous lectures on the islands, when he got back home, gave him his first widespread reputation (he outdrew Actress Fanny Kemble 1,500 to 200 in Pittsburgh, packed London...