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The Red Ghost | April 1961

The huge, cloven-footed creature that terrorized southeast Arizona was no figment of the mind. The grisly story of its origin and fate was more macabre in fact than any fiction Read >>

A Face From The Past—i | April 1961

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Brother Against Brother | April 1961

A century ago this month began the war that set These unpublished letters show how one family was bitterly split Read >>

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The Wasted Mission | April 1961

Against a background of postwar turmoil, a 28-year-old State Department aide was sent to negotiate with the Bolshevik leaders. His rebuff by Wilson caused a national uproar Read >>

Ambassador’s Return: 1933 | April 1961

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Two Gentlemen From Newburyport | April 1961

The eccentric Timothy Dexter finally found a sympathetic biographer in his fellow townsman, novelist John Marquand Read >>

The Johnson Country War | April 1961

Enraged by losses from their herds a band of respectable cattle barons took the law into their own hands—and barely escaped with their lives Read >>

Reveille On East 75th Street Or Roughing It With The Girl Scouts Of 1918 In A Manhattan Mansion | April 1961

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Jones Vs. Jones | April 1961

In Toledo a civic crusade matched the popular mayor against a famed evangelist—both with the same name Read >>

The Kings Census: 1577 | April 1961

Philip II’s cédula real evoked from his overseas domains vivid picture-maps of life in Spanish America Read >>

Mad Old Man From Massachusetts | April 1961

How gnarled, upright ex-President John Quincy Adams broke the South’s gag rule in Congress and at last won popular applause Read >>

Why Won’t They Work? | April 1961

The search for perpetual motion is a tragicomedy of obsessed inventors, an eager faith, and humbug Read >>

The Famous Tax Included, Tea Was Still Cheaper Here | April 1961

An Englishman re-examines certain stereotyped attitudes on the American Revolution Read >>

Untitled | April 1961

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What Caused The Revolution? | April 1961

A Few Unkind Words for Lawyers, From a Not- Unprejudiced Source Read >>

Reading, Writing, And History | April 1961

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The Sense Of Wonder | April 1961

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A Sensible Suggestion | June 1961

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Reading, Writing, And History | June 1961

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“The Noblest Cause That Men Have Ever Died For” | June 1961

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Panic Rides The High Seas | June 1961

A hysterical captain thought he detected mutiny. After a hasty court-martial, three men were hanged—one the son of the Secretary of War. Then the uproar began Read >>

Frank Merriwell At Yale Again And Again And Again | June 1961

Harvard men blanched, cads fled, girls got trembly, and Horatio Alger took a back seat when manly Frank appeared. Score? Twenty million words Read >>

Faces From The Past—ii | June 1961

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The Passing Of The Passenger Pigeon | June 1961

These wild birds once inhabited North America by the billions. Yet in three centuries they were exterminated by “civilized” man Read >>

The Road To Yalta | June 1961

A dozen arduous years lay between our recognition of the Soviets and the conference in Crimea; then the friendship so briefly rekindled flickered out again Read >>

Good Old Uncle Joe Stalin | June 1961

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The Letters Of Publius | June 1961

Writing in haste under this antique pseudonym, three young men produced a running defense of the hold new American Constitution. After 173 years, The Federalist still casts a very long shadow Read >>

The Look Of The Last Frontier | June 1961

Harvey Dunn’s canvases re-create the hopes, the heartbreaks, and the high courage of South Dakota’s hardy pioneers Read >>

Dakota Country | June 1961

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Alfred Ely Beach And His Wonderful Pneumatic Underground Railway | June 1961

Underneath Broadway the workmen dug in secret. Then a startled public learned that their city had—a subway Read >>

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