European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 1, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes May 1985 daily Magazine there Are truly awful things happening by Russell Baker its my Contention that there have never been so Many truly awful things As there Are there is a professional football league which plays football All summer for that is a truly awful i doubt that the the the my pcs or the who thrived in a thoroughly unattractive Era and put up with some pretty awful would have tolerated summer 1 imagine word reaching the assyrian King that a Cabal of capitalists is gathered at the Nineveh Plaza hotel drawing up a a plot this is the King and you know How Kings feel about the spies say these rogues Hope to milk the viewing audience of More millions of plasters by starting a summer football do you think the King is going to sit still for that hah i hear him football right on through the baseball season that is one truly awful a you cant Hiss that in but the King int speaking is he Hes speaking next Day at the the assyrians come Down like a Wolf on the cohorts gleaming in purple and and its curtains for one group of capitalists so greedy they were ready to inflict a truly awful thing on human Here is another truly awful thing some very decent americans of modern Syri an arc going to read this and Send angry let where do you get off abusing syrians As you bigot those letters will the truly awful thing at work Here is the sense of obligation almost every modern american feels to be offended for the pleasure of taking note that in choosing ancient Assyria to show How a More muscular culture than ours would Cope with a truly awful thing like summer i make no connection Between that extinct nation and modern we have All heard that modern italians and greeks arc unrelated to the ancients of Rome and who thrived Long after Assyria had vanished surely nobody living today can feel Kin to people who worshipped Ashur years ago on land now part of Iraq and some very decent americans of modern syrian heritage will Send a letter sick and tired of seeing our people stereotyped As wolves because of that idiotic lord Byron with his  Why so sure because i received such letters three years ago after writing about those antique assyrians in Wolfon therold knowing All Why not forget assyrians and cite babylonians or medes As Tough cookies who would have known How to stamp out a summer football pestilence because it would make no choose medes and there will be angry mail from americans who re member family tales of their Mede sick and tired of these Mede babylonians its hard to but there Are peo ple out there somewhere whose sensitivities Are bruised every time babylonians Are it is a because the land is swarming with people willing to spend their lives being whether the offender is offensive or suppose you wrote about the babylonian King coming Down like a Wolf on the summer football the mail would bristle with letters demanding to know Why you chose to make this Strong character a King rather than a and then telling you that you sexist spending a life in quest of offence in order to enjoy a righteous outrage is a truly awful thing which did not except among hopeless until the it was a byproduct of the Black civil rights which provided such a heroic spectacle of abused people fighting for their rights that before Long very few Amer including those already possessed of All rights guaranteed by the Constitution plus Many others provided by could resist the pleasure of struggling heroically for their own another truly awful thing would you believe vile and disgusting greed has infected the curators of with the result that starting this year baseball will be played right up to almost november this almost november next year who knows All the Way into the basketball this is a truly awful and i doubt that the ancient chinese would have tolerated scrub ancient and make it lets say aborigine cant be Many of them itching to throw their weight c 1985 new York times Syndicate much ado about Shakespeare Folio new York a the first Folio of William Shakespeare from the Library of renowned song writer Paul Francis was auctioned for the second highest Price for a printed Book sold in Ameri Ca and the second highest for a work by who died last bought the Book in 1965 from John a new York City rare Book dealer who bought it Back at the so Thebes auction of websters Library the record for a first Folio of Shakespeare plays was sold in Paris in 1980 for million or to parisian collector Andre Fleming the most expensive printed Book in the world is the first one printed from movable the 15thcentury German Gutenberg which was purchased for million in 1978 by Martin a new York rare Book i think its the Best copy of a Shakespeare Folio apart from the one sold in Fleming adding that he didst think the Price was very much value Fleming said he bought the published in 1623 seven years after the playwrights for it contains 36 18 of which were making their first appearance in the first Folio is the worlds most important Book printed in the English language because it is the first Complete collection of the plays by the worlds greatest and no Shakespeare play has survived in Manu said David so Thebes new York Book there Are 172 Shakespeare first folios known of be tween 600 to that were printed not a bad survival rate considering How Long ago it he most of them Are with missing and this is one of 44 that Are a second which appeared in and a third in each printed from the one immediately preceding were purchased by private said Maryjo Kline of so Thebes Book the second Folio brought and the third a fourth from was bid at by an 8 year old who bought it for his fathers rare Book the Bibl octopus in the Mark said it was his sons first Hume said the Folio was purchased for a client in who lived in new wrote More than 500 winning oscars for secret love is a  thing and the Shadow of your the folios were among 181 lots in the Webster which was 92 percent sold and fetched a total of said Mathew a so Thebes the Webster collection also included a set of Auto graphs of All 56 men who signed the declaration of inde and works by Charles Dickens and his final attention to soliciting for his today crossword by Eugene Sheffer across 1 pea cases 5 Constellation 8 strike breaker 12 Oriental nurse 43 party 45 author Truman 47 arks berth 51 musical work 13 Rickles 52 burial 14 ethiopian chamber Lake 15 Waterfall 17 Sweet sop 18 Garland 19 revolve 21 Spanish Queen 22 seed coat 23 shellac base 26 for one 28 drunkard 31 toward the Mouth 33 Alley 35 in Madrid 36 Quick snacks 38 snug Retreat 40 soak 41 footless 54 Man or Wight 55 anthropoid 56 essayist 57 do it Porter 59 Brown the roast Down 1 rodent 2 sultanate 3 computer food 4 Specter 5 unyielding 6 fabled Bird 7 sinuses 8 Railroad Stop 9 Trees 10 Dill Plant 58 Alamos 11 foundation solution time 25 my Igi missa Suffill Raou Shah so h huh s3hs3 51 to 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