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"These are the time that try men's souls." So said Tom Paine, at the beginning of the American Revolution. He said a lot more, during the course of that struggle; he tactfully remarked that General Howe "showed an inbred wretchedness of heart made up between the venomous malignity of...
Variety. Gene Vidal, a onetime Army flyer who looks like an Indian, was born 38 years ago in Madison, S. Dak. His father, a railway engineer, sent him to the State university to study engineering. Though physically lazy, brawny Gene Vidal became a crack athlete, won letters in football, baseball...
With longer and better discussions of gold-standard economics separating his flambuoyant portraits of Wall Street personalities, Father Coughlin has again rolled a sonorous hour's speech along the national networks. Again the bankers, professors, senators, braintrusters, labor leaders, and even cardinals can read it with detached approval or dissent...
Last month Irving Wexler was put on trial as an income tax dodger. For three years the U. S. Government had been trying to get him just as it got Chicago's Alphonse Capone. Federal investigators, working day and night, uncovered evidence showing that he owed the Treasury $1...
Of Tennysonesque Lord Salisbury, Author Maurois says: "He always looked as though he had slept in his clothes. . . . When he was bored, as he was by nearly every human activity, he showed it by a trembling of the legs peculiar to himself."