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Caution: These Verses May Be Hazardous To Your Solemnity.

People Seem To Enjoy Things More When They Know A Lot Of Other People Have Been Left Out Of The Pleasure.

It Is Fitting That Yesteryear's Swashbuckling Newspaper Reporter Has Turned Into Today's Solemn Young Sobersides Nursing A Glass Of Watered White Wine After A Day Of Toiling Over Computer Databases In A Smoke-free, Noise-free Newsroom.

The Early Commentators Who Put Down The Pre-presidential Roosevelt As An Empty-headed Young Lightweight, All Ambition And No Talent, Now Seem Comically Wrong To A Modern Book-reading, Movie-going, Television-watching, Legend-loving American Public Conditioned To Think Of Him As One Of The Presidential Giants On The Order Of Washington And Lincoln.

Gerald Boyd Was A Classic Specimen Of The Self-made Man. Born Poor, He Worked And Studied His Way Up Out Of Poverty Under The Guidance Of His Widowed Grandmother.