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...stories are dwarfed by this one, in which the great dramatist himself supplies a wealth of clues . . . When the true author is known, the meaning of the plays is enhanced and their vitality surpasses anything yet devised by the mind or pen of man. The author, Edward de Vere [Earl of Oxford], was determined that his truth would sooner or later be known-" 'Gainst death and all oblivious enmity . . ." DOROTHY AND CHARLTON OGBURN New York City
...result, the best firsthand views of history in the making are the work of self-taught engravers and limners, who turned out such rough-and-ready works as The Battle of Lexington (above}, a joint work by Painter Ralph Earl and Engraver Amos Doolittle. both believed to have been members of the New Haven Cadets under Captain Benedict Arnold.* Between Copley's departure and Stuart's return in 1793, the best contemporary portraits of the men who led the Revolution were all done by Soldier-Painter Peale...
...fortnight, all these people marched out past their tumbledown cemetery to the green grass Pedro Juan Caballero airstrip. Soon, two silvery Douglas transports circled and landed, bringing Paraguayan President Alfredo Stroessner, U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay Arthur Ageton and other local and foreign dignitaries. Forward to greet them stepped Clarence Earl Johnson, a 6-ft, 200-lb. Texan in a white Stetson, faded blue jeans with pearl buttons, and cowhide boots...
Citation: "What Pericles said of his compatriots might well be applied to you-I use your translation-'You love beauty without extravagance and wisdom without weakness of will.' " Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the U.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D...
...fine mystery," he wrote, "and I tremble every day lest something should turn up." Among those who have gone further and insisted that William Shakespeare was a mere pen name are men as different as Mark Twain (a whole-hog Baconian), Sigmund Freud (he rooted for the Earl of Oxford), Bismarck, Walt Whitman, Oliver Wendell Holmes. In 1931, Britain's Gilbert Slater caused a flutter by declaring that Shakespeare was a seven-man syndicate consisting of Francis Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh, Lady Pembroke, Christopher Marlowe and the Earls of Oxford, Derby, Rutland...