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...jammed immigrant ships, endangering America's agrarian dreams, clogging the cities with cheap labor. The old elites regarded the immigrants as the canaille that Jefferson had warned against; democracy could not survive such hordes of the ignorant and illiterate with their allegiances to a sinister wizard who dwelled in Rome surrounded by the skeletons of Borgias. (The Catholic immigrants, flocking together in a consciousness of their own differences, and with some desire to preserve them, seemed to confirm nativist fears.) When Pope Pius IX in the 1840s followed the example of European monarchs and sent a block of marble...
DIED. Roy E. Larsen, 80, Time Inc. magazine marketing wizard, a creator of The March of Time and first publisher of LIFE, who was a top Time Inc. executive for 56 years, 21 of them as president; in Fairfield, Conn, (see PRESS...
Napoleon or Wizard...
Here in Baltimore, the man you describe as having a Napoleonic complex is known as the Wizard of 33rd Street, and that Earl Weaver is [July 23]! Once you catch his "Oriole fever," there's no getting...
...took a fair amount of brass and something like genius to transcend these limitations. Judy Garland in Wizard of Oz and Mickey Rooney in Boys' Town did it by the sheer force of their gift. But to ward the close of World War II, styles changed...