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> Republican Arthur James (1939-43) is 79, still goes every day to his Wilkes-Barre law office. James, a tiny (5 ft. 5 in., 135 lbs.) former coal-mine breaker's boy, once said he "wouldn't cross Broad Street to become Governor." Now he remembers: "The Democrats...
> Republican John S. Fine (1951-55 ) is 69, practices law in Wilkes-Barre. Says he: "I had enough of the governorship. I wouldn't want any more, not with what I encountered: a fight in my own party, a lot of ingratitude, friends who failed to stand behind me...
But why stop there? Why not produce an historical dramatization with a similar format? Then we could all hear John Wilkes Booth talk on Lincoln, Adolf Hitler talk on Churchill, and Al Capone talk on Ness.
Bits & Pieces. Last week, as the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology celebrated :he centennial of its founding as the Army Medical Museum, tourists still admired an Sickles' leg. They could also gape at a lock of Lincoln's hair, a bone sliver from his skull, and bullet-shattered...
-Lord Mansfield, Chief Justice of England (Rex v. Wilkes, 1768)