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June 28, 1518 was the name day of Pedro de Vargas in Jaén in Old Spain. It is also the opening date of one of the most torrid, non-stop adventure stories since Anthony Adverse. Captain from Castile begins with Pedro going to confession (he had slept through...
Do TIME editors go in for New Year's stock-takings and that sort of thing? The question occurred to me when I recently read the following confession by the editor of a British magazine called Horizon:
Editorial Confession
Moonshine and Confession. Longtime curse of the Ozarks, and Preacher Howard's knottiest problem, has been moonshining. One of his book's most poignant chapters concerns his watch by the bedside of a delirious 14-year-old boy dying in agony of fusel-oil poisoning after drinking moonshine...
Like a prosecutor confronting a stubborn defendant with his own damning confession, Tom Dewey had a field day with a hatful of hapless Administration quotes, including some from Franklin Roosevelt. He recalled that, in January 1940, he himself had called for a two-ocean Navy. That statement had been branded...