> http://www.rawbw.com/~cgrimes/homepage/kalashnikov.gif
which returns:
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>
> You don't have permission to access /~cgrimes/homepage/kalashnikov.gif
> on this server.
But there's another one here, temporarily:
http://fnast.com/003.html (and best not look at http://fnast.com/002.html, or your eyes will turn to rock-hard emeralds)
Just read a great book - for me, anyway - on "The Other Minneapolis," exploring the 19th-century genesis and eventual 20th-century demise of the skid row area (skid row, btw, is a *logging*-related term that originated in Seattle), formerly known as the Gateway, in Minneapolis - the very heart of the city. Of little interest to anyone here, save the fact that it of course touched on the pivotal 1934 Teamsters' Strike that had international repercussions. (There's at least one worthwhile book on that subject that I'm going to track down one of these days...)
This ties in with the 1946 Eric Sevareid autobiography that I'm still working on. He was a local and covered the aforementioned labor unrest for the Minneapolis Journal shortly after he graduated from the Univ. of Minnesota. His involvement with the Left here in town was fairly extensive in his early days. Some interesting anecdotes about the meetings of the local Silver Shirts who worshipped the fascist William Dudley Pelley, leader of the Christian Party, conspiracy-mongers par excellence - Elders of Zion, secret handshakes, the whole bit. (Sevareid then went on to the UK and Europe and covered World War II on radio with Murrow and others, as many will know...)
Which leads, obliquely, to the William Herrick novel of the Spanish Civil War, _Hermanos_. Herrick was involved in the fighting at the time, but didn't publish the book until years later, in the late '60s. Any opinions of same? I'm imagining a "you-are-there" immediacy informed by his direct experience in the conflict, but filtered through a post-'60s lens. I'm hoping to plunge into that in a week or so.
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/ dave /
