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February 1970

13 years ago By admin

Volume

21

Issue

2

ABOMINABLE SNOWMEN CARETTA CARETTA CARETTA WHO WILL PAY FOR THROW-AWAY SOFT DRINK BOTTLES? WHAT IT WILL TAKE TECHNOLOGY’S CORNUCOPIA SAVING A MOUNTAIN GAMBLING ON AN ISLAND NOMINEES FOR THE AMERICAN HERITAGE SOCIETY AWARDS

Stories published from "February 1970"

A Wrecker’s Dozen

Authored by: David McCullough

The wrecker’s ball swings in every city in the land, and memorable edifices of all kinds are coming down at a steady clip.

That Mess On The Prestile

Authored by: Frank Graham Jr.

From a way Down East came a stench of politics and potatoes, and news of a border incident that true patriots will long remember as

Nominees For The American Heritage Society Awards

Authored by: Elizabeth N. Layne

SEE ANNOUNCEMENT ON PAGE 3

“A Melancholy Case”

Authored by: Allan L. Damon

In reprisal for a Tory atrocity, Washington ordered the hanging of a captive British officer chosen by lot. He was nineteen.

The Boy Artist Of Red River

Authored by: Alvin M. Josephy Jr.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty, young Peter Rindisbacher captured on canvas the lives of Indians and white pioneers on the Manitoba—Minnesota frontier

The Policeman’s Lot

Authored by: Thomas Fleming

Benevolent father figure? Bloody-handed Cossack? Slow-witted flatfoot? Irish grafter? Brave but underpaid public servant? Check your prejudice against this inquiry into police history

The Real Little Lord Fauntleroy

Authored by: Tom Mccarthy

The lady author modelled her famous fictional creation after her own wonder boy —and condemned a generation of “manly little chaps” to velvet pants and curls

“Our German Wehrmacht Is Being Stopped By A Shadow”

Authored by: Corey Ford

The furious speaker was Field Marshal Kesselring. The time was 1944. And the “shadow” was cast by Italian partisans and a handful of brave Americans from General Bill Donovan’s O.S.S.

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