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Gossip and Reflections A brief family affair
A collage of anecdotes and musings spans love, crime, politics, and culture. Vignettes include a fatal dare at a shooting gallery, polio and tobacco musings, NAACP recollections with DuBois, humorous exchanges, heroin and crime notes, a Lady Lil Western tale, royal and presidential quips, Mary Queen of Scots, Lincoln quotes, marriage banter, European royalty in NYC, and a Columbus murder case. The tone mixes whimsy with social commentary and references to race, war, and public life.