“I felt as though I was walking with destiny . . .”
In May 10th, 1940, Winston Churchill, then age sixty-six, became Prime Minister of England. This was the time when the powerful German air force was making round-the-clock trips across the English Channel dumping planeload after planeload of bombs on England. No one knew whether […]

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“No good idea was ever allowed to get away.”
Few things could be more fascinating than to study the life of a great thinker. Van Wyck Brooks wrote an interesting study of the gifted American essayist and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson that he titled, A Biography of an Inner Life. Mr. Brooks studied Emerson from […]

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William Danforth once wrote a important book entitled I DARE YOU! As a small boy before the time of drainage ditches, living in the countryside surrounded by swamplands. Those were the days of chills and fever and malaria. When he went to city school he was a sallow cheeked and hollow chested young […]

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