October/november 1981

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The Pumpkin Paper

A vicious attack on a holiday favorite

Painters Of Plenty

An Autumn Harvest of American Still Lifes

The Miss Stone Affair

American citizens held hostage by nationalist terrorists in a distant land. An aroused public calls for action. A cautious President seeks to avert violence. In 1901.

Randall B. Woods

When I Landed The War Was Over

A veteran news correspondent recalls his days as a spotter plane pilot

Hughes Rudd

Benny Goodman

An Interview With the King of Swing

Richard M. Sudhalter

Henry Hobson Richardson

“I’ll plan anything a man wants,” he said, “from a cathedral to a chicken coop.” The monumental results transformed American architecture

John Russell

Arkansas Encounter

The Story Behind a Legend

The Strange Saga Of The President’s Desk

From the End of the Earth to the Oval Office

Terrence Cole

Triumph At Yorktown

Everything depended on a French fleet leaving the Indies on time; two American armies meeting in Virginia on time; a French fleet beating a British fleet; a French army getting along with an American one; and a British general staying put.

Jack Rudolph

Mark Twain In Paradise

He Never Got Hawaii out of His System

History And The Imagination

Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Merci, America

How a Whole Nation Said Thank You

Manuel A. Conley

Remington And The Eli Eleven

A Vivid Look at Early Football

Martians & Vikings, Madoc & Runes

A seasoned campaigner’s look at the never-ending war between archaeological fact and archaeological fraud