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Odell, who took leave of active CIA duty in 1965 to study for a year at the Littauer School of Public Administration, tells his tales with conviction and sincerity despite their incredible content. He first began to reveal some of his history in late October to William Beecher, diplomatic correspondent for the Boston Globe. At that time, Odell decided to "go public" about his background and disclose some of the things he knows. ("I'm wired," he says. "I know more than you'll ever dream.") With passionate intensity he states his motivation in coming out: "I finally got tired...
Those are a few of the best moments contained in the Life Special Report on "Remarkable American Women, 1776-1976." The issue anthologizes photographs of this country's most prominent women, ranging from Susan B.Anthony to Ma Barker, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Calamity Jane, Katharine Hepburn and Mae West. Such an endeavor would seem guaranteed of success, but somehow this issue of Life manages to miss its mark. Too many "remarkable" women have been left out, and those included suffer from the four inches of idiotic copy allotted to each entry...
...reading and bought a copy of Ragtime can find a shot of Evelyn Nesbit on the stand at Harry K. Thaw's murder trial and discover what all the fuss was about. Mother's Younger Brother should have stayed in the closet. "Noble Causes" documents political activists from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Angela Davis. This is the only section where the photographs just don't do their subjects justice; of the eighteen women included, all but two are seated quietly, staring passively into space...
...this is the little lady who made this big war," said Abraham Lincoln. The President was meeting the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin for the first time, more than a decade after the book's publication in 1852. It was not simply a patronizing remark. Harriet Beecher Stowe really was small: "I am a little bit of a woman," she described herself, "about as thin and dry as a pinch of snuff." If Uncle Tom's Cabin did not quite start a war, it ignited the minds of people North and South, both for and against...
...Harriet Beecher Stowe was a well-known writer well before Uncle Tom's Cabin made her rich and famous. For a time, she and her preacher husband Calvin Stowe were too poor to afford a servant. Mrs. Stowe ran her house, cared for her twin daughters (the first two of seven children), churned out genteel, folksy stories and religious essays to help make ends meet. Uncle Tom's Cabin changed all that. It was the first great American bestseller. In its initial year in print it sold 300,000 copies, and eventually more than 3 million American readers...