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Chronicles Magazine Biography

Secure of Private Rights

Catharine Savage Brosman - JULY 01, 2011

“For who can be secure of private right, If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might?” —John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel

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Cultural Revolutions

Tom Roeser, R.I.P.
Anthony Brankin - JULY 01, 2011
Tom Roeser was perhaps Thomas to his parents and teachers and those who never met him. But for those of us fortunate enough to have glided within his ambit—even for a few moments—he was “Tom.”
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Sins of Omission

James Arness
Roger McGrath - JULY 01, 2011
Early in June, James Arness died. Everyone thinks of him as Matt Dillon, the brave and incorruptible town marshal of Dodge City in the television series Gunsmoke. I think of him as the father of one of my childhood friends and as one of...
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