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...continued the war, continued slavery. Lincoln's son headed the Pullman Co. Andrew Carnegie vowed to retire to Oxford at 30 but amassed millions instead, and wished another generation the joy he had missed in libraries. Charles Francis Adams went in for railroads. Colorless, sad Howells, despairing Mark Twain, bitter-black Ambrose Bierce were the successors of Herman Melville, whose grappling with the primeval had been tragic but sublime; of Whitman, whom Mark Twain congratulated on having lived to see the marvels of steam and electricity. "The guts were gone from idealism" and William James offered a "pragmatic aquiescence...
...Mark Twain. (Samuel Clemens...
Died. Frank M. Mulligan, 73, architect, whom a Carnegie Hall (Manhattan) audience once loudly cheered in the belief that he was bushy-haired Mark Twain; at Elizabeth, N. J., of an apoplectic stroke...
...interest your readers to know that the Mark Twain Society has inaugurated a contest for the best letter on the subject: "Why I Like Mark Twain." Letters should reach us by Aug. 1, and must not exceed 300 words in length. A prize of $5 is offered...
President, Mark Twain Society 37 Gray Avenue Webster Groves...