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...late, great prestidigitator Harry Houdini, famed foe of phony mediums, and his wife Beatrice agreed before his death to try to get in touch with each other afterwards. Gravely ill last week in Hollywood, his widow announced that she had not only given up trying but had her doubts about the existence of a hereafter. She had held seances every year for ten years, unsuccessfully. "Ten years," observed patient Mrs. Houdini last week, "is long enough to wait...
...help to strike my foe...
When they left, 10,000 of the foe had been knocked out of action. Seven thousand had been killed (by actual count of bodies), 3,000 had been done in by disease, starvation, wounds or capture...
Relentless foe of the monolithic state, ever suspicious of a concentration of power, Jefferson was on a constant crusade for the people and against ignorance. Said he: "In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover. . . . Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves therefore are its only safe depositories. And to render even them safe, their minds must be improved to a certain degree. . . . Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they...
...Friend & Foe. Bright as a dollar and full of information on underground resistance, French Communist Leader Fernand Grenier bobbed up in London. He table-thumped that all France is united behind De Gaulle as a symbol of liberation. Grenier "agreed that Giraud is the ideal man to lead the fighting forces for North Africa," but it was to De Gaulle that he brought a promise of support...