October/november 1981

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FEATURES

Martians & Vikings, Madoc & Runes

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

Dean R. Snow

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

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

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

DEPARTMENTS

A HERITAGE PRESERVED

AMERICAN CHARACTERS

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

NOW AND THEN

POSTSCRIPTS

READERS’ ALBUM

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