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May 7, 2007

Time magazine opens archives to 1923; Bill Clinton's NYT crossword; Frommer's: Gainesville best place to live

Time Magazine opens its searchable archives: You can now search back to 1923, and see the oldest results first, if you like.

Here's an original, brief review of The Great Gatsby, May. 11, 1925: Incorruptible Yegg.

Monday, Nov. 04, 1929 Bankers v. Panic -- an account of the "Black Friday" stock market crash.

An Artist Vanishes, April 14, 1941, is an account of Virginia Woolf's death. (Four years earlier, she had been Time's cover story.) Suicide Note, May 5, 1941, follows up with the contents of her last message, read at a coroner's inquest.

Among the earliest Rhode Island stories, March 24, 1923, More Rum Fleets, about a 16-vessel bootleg liquor fleet that "lies between Block Island, off the Rhode Island coast, and No Man's Land. "

Here, in its entirety is In Rode Island (sic), of Sept. 10, 1923:

The question of the compulsory teaching of English in the schools has turned the State of Rhode Island Democratic, and it may dominate politics there for some years to come. Rhode Island is the most foreign state in the Union.* One-twentieth of its population is French-Canadian. The French-Canadians desire, to retain their hyphenated distinction. They therefore: opposed the law passed by a Republican House in 1922 making English compulsory in the schools, and they turned out the Republicans who had passed it. In 1923 with a Democratic House, a Republican Senate and a French-Canadian Lieutenant Governor they failed by the narrowest of margins to secure a repeal. And they have not yet given up their attempt

* R. I. has 28.7% foreign-born whites; Mass., 28% ; Conn., 27.3% ; N. Y., 26.8%.

There is not enough time to browse through all this history... Many thanks to Doc Searls for the pointer to this one.

Afterlife: Celebrity Crossword: Twistin' the Oldies. The N.Y. Times crossword puzzle yesterday with clues by Bill Clinton. You can do the Java version online or print a pdf and use a pencil as you solve it.

Editor's Note: The clues in this puzzle are a little more playful and involve more wordplay than in a typical crossword. You have been warned. -- WILL SHORTZ

Did the former president really come up with "Slavic mark" -- 5 Down -- on his own?

Insiders: Reaping the Whirlwind. In the Post, Bob Woodward reviews AT THE CENTER OF THE STORM: My Years at the CIA By George Tenet with Bill Harlow. So you'll know what the talking heads are talking about next.

You can read Tenet's first chapter (and that of many other recently reviewed books) at WaPo's Chapter One archive.

The Times has a First Chapters section for its reviewed books, as well. You might be interested in

(Later: Dont you love it when a sentence dangles like that. I was going to name something at the Times chapter corral, but I didn't like anything I started, and then I went off on something else and forgot I had typed that. Watch me work...)

Gainesville gloats: City ranked No. 1: Gainesville tops list of 400 cities in U.S., Canada

The Guy Who Picks the Best Places to Live

Idle rich: 'I could have been Annie Warhol': Telegraph UK catches up with "Anne Lambton, the wayward daughter of Lord Lambton" who may or may not have almost married Andy Warhol.

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