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Said Disraeli to Gladstone. . .
At a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli, "I predict, Sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease." Disraeli replied, "That all depends, Sir, upon whether I…
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Flying Into the Unpredictable: Publishing During a Pandemic [by J. Chester Johnson]
(ed note: We checked in with J. Chester Johnson to find out how he's fared over the course of the last 18 plus months with the publication of his timely Damaged Heritage. Here's his…
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Greg McBride: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
__________________________________________________________ Sizes My sister found our father’s ring, turquoise faded, sullied silver-plate. It stopped my breath. Thirty years ago I…
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You Choose: Two Versions of “Autumn Song” [by W. H. Auden]
Now the leaves are falling fast,Nurse's flowers will not last,Nurses to their graves are gone,But the prams go rolling on. Whispering neighbours left and rightDaunt us from our true delight,Able hands are forced to…
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Louis Armstrong in 1934 & in Australia c. 1956 & on the Edsel Show
"I Cover the Waterfront" . . Now you has jazz. . . with Crosby & Sinatra & Rosemary Clooney: On the Sunny Side of the Street