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themanintheseersuckersuit
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by themanintheseersuckersuit » Sat Feb 09, 2008 11:07 am
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... db0901.xml
"You're a Yank," said a British voice.
"Never," came Fawcett's lilting southern burr, "confuse a Virginian with a Yankee."
In three months at the end of the war, Fawcett married six Jewish women who had been trapped in concentration camps, a procedure that entitled them to leave France with an automatic American visa.
Charles Fawcett's first wife died in 1956 and after a 30-year engagement he married, in 1991, April Ducksbury, with whom he settled in London. She survives him with the daughter of his first marriage.
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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PlacentiaSoccerMom
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by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Sat Feb 09, 2008 12:41 pm
In three months at the end of the war, Fawcett married six Jewish women who had been trapped in concentration camps, a procedure that entitled them to leave France with an automatic American visa.
Wow, he sounds like he was quite the character.
How could he marry so many women in such a short period of time? Was he a bigamist?
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themanintheseersuckersuit
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by themanintheseersuckersuit » Sun Feb 10, 2008 11:08 am
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:How could he marry so many women in such a short period of time? Was he a bigamist?
I guess he did what men do best, he lied!
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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tanstaafl2
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by tanstaafl2 » Sun Feb 10, 2008 12:58 pm
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:
How could he marry so many women in such a short period of time? Was he a bigamist?
I guess he did what men do best, he lied!
Well, that too. But I suspect it was merely a paperwork shuffle that helped get them out of the country. And I don't think it was all that uncommon at the time.
A couple of francs may have changed hands as well...
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
~Mark Twain
Some people are like a Slinky. They are not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs...
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