March 9, 1958

Above, a literary time capsule: Thomas B. Costain ... James Jones ... James Gould Cozzens ... and Vance Packard. Below, Republican President Dwight Eisenhower calls for a huge spending program to end the U.S. recession. Eisenhower advocates civil works programs to improve the national park system and roads on Indian reservations; dams, flood control projects and other water programs; highway construction; and releasing money so Fannie Mae can buy up home mortgages.

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Posted by Larry Harnisch on March 9, 2008 in Books , Front pages , Politics | Permalink

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Larry Harnisch. The leading Black Dahlia expert and a collaborator in the 1947project, Harnisch has been a copy editor at The Times since 1988. He has appeared on many TV shows discussing the Dahlia case, notably "James Ellroy's Feast of Death."

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