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July/August 1997

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Volume

48

Issue

4

Leaving for Korea Leaving for Korea Dinner at Anoine’ Dinner at Antoine’

Stories published from "July/August 1997"

1972
Twenty-five Years Ago

Authored by: Frederic D. O'Brien

Eagleton Has Landed

There Is Something about a Martini

Authored by: Max Rudin

IT’S MORE THAN JUST A POTENT DRINK, AND MORE THAN THE INSPIRATION FOR SOME HANDSOME ANCILLARY EQUIPMENT. IT IS MODERN TIMES, BROUGHT TO YOU IN A BEAUTIFUL CHALICE.

Making Sense of the Fourth of July

Authored by: Pauline Maier

The Declaration of Independence is not what Thomas Jefferson thought it was when he wrote it, and that's why we celebrate it.

Cagney Did "Yankee Doodle Dandy" to Prove He Wasn't a Commie

Authored by: Fred Anderson

Locked in a strange, testy collaboration lit by the fires of a burning world, George M. Cohan and James Cagney produced a masterpiece of popular history in which everything is true except the facts.

The American Fireworks Fetish

Authored by: Jack Kelly

What lasts a couple of seconds, ravishes the eye, and calms the soul? Americans have known since 1608.

Lifeline to a Sinking Continent

Authored by: Robert James Maddox

American self-interest was involved, of course, but the Marshall Plan remains what some have referred to as a rare example of “power used to its best end.”

1847
One Hundred And
Fifty Years Ago

Authored by: Frederic D. O'Brien

A Sticky Situation

1897
One Hundred Years Ago

Authored by: Frederic D. O'Brien

Old Paint’s New Rival

1947
Fifty Years Ago

Authored by: Frederic D. O'Brien

Death of a Demagogue