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...1880s. One account: Billy Patterson was a rich Baltimorean who was struck by an unknown party in a border-town free-for-all in Georgia, in 1783. He "inquired so hotly as to who struck him that a national saying therefrom crept into existence . . . he left $1,000 to whoever should name the man." Just 100 years later Mrs. Jenny G. Covely of Athol, N. Y. applied for the legacy, said her father (one Tillerton) had done the deed...
...Whoever wrote the story of Pope Pius' death (TIME, Feb. 20) has fathered a moving piece of writing. If the next Pope is seen to compromise with totalitarianism, the deathbed scene of Pius XI will indeed seem to be taken from a new Götterdämmerung ; starring the vestiges of freedom still clinging to Europe...
...socalled White Russian" who would join Hitler to fight the Soviet Union. In a phrase reminiscent of Frenchman Jacques Deval's play Tovarich-which Adolf Hitler has seen three times-old General Denikin cried to an audience of fellow-exiles: "White or Red, our fatherland remains our fatherland. Whoever may aid Russia's enemies cannot call himself a patriot, no matter what ideological excuse he may use for taking money to fight his own people...
After promising the Committee $1000, Cantor gave his plan of raising the necessary money, which was to have every one of the 900 students present give $10 and write to whoever might receive the same amount in a Christmas gift where the money was going...
Your reviewer, whoever he is, is apparently clinging to a theory which is no longer valid for our country. Modesty, in our day, almost invariably accompanies mediocrity, and is usually an inside out variety of immodesty...