Trillin’s With All Disrespect earns a reader’s praise
James Kilpatrick reflects on Calvin Trillin’s collection With All Disrespect More Uncivil Liberties praising its effortless seeming wit and prose. Kilpatrick notes humor is the hardest form to master and admires Trillin’s artful grace and casual clarity.
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Trillin Humor and Other Light Moments in Print
A roundup notes humorists like Trillin and Buchwald, praising wit without mean-spirited sharpness. It highlights short sentence rhythms, playful asides about Marc Rich, and playful profiles, while bemoaning similar light fare in other papers and oddities in various local columns.
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Sun Belt shift deepens Democrats' woes in 1990s
AP analysis notes the Democratic Party faces repeated presidential defeats and faces a Census forecast pushing growth toward the Sun Belt. The piece discusses party reform efforts, the Democratic Leadership Council, and splits with the national party as seats shift toward California, Texas, and Florida, with New York and Illinois likely to lose ground.
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McKenna Hospital seeks bids on renovations over 1.5 million
OSU an LC ten years pass with a Hill Burton federal grant of 643,522 and a guaranteed loan of 514,800 backing hospital additions and alterations totaling more than 1.5 million. John Svoboda, hospital administrator, said bids are due at 2 p.m. June 17.
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New Braunfels ISD faces new bond petitions after defeat
Twenty five years ago the official canvass showing the school bond defeat by 136 votes left five new petitions for another bond election in the hands of New Braunfels ISD trustees. Four sought resubmission of the $2.47 million bond defeated April 2 while 1,119 opposed and 983 supported the earlier measure.
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Miss Sallie Branch dies recalling antebellum era
Fifty years ago days of the antebellum South were recalled with the death of Miss Sallie Branch at 89. She died Tuesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Clark after gaining freedom from slavery following Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and later moved to New Braunfels where she married Sam Branch.
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