THE CONGRESS: Messiah on the March

Lives of football heroes, child actors, prodigious poets and boy Senators have demonstrated time & again the perils and penalties of early fame. Spotlighted in Washington last week was the rarer but less tragic phenomenon of a man to fame came late. Seventeen years ago Dr. Francis Everett retired to California to spend last years in the sun. Like that of every physician, his life in South Dakota's Black Hills had been a hard one which had him no fame and very little Legend has it that Dr. Townsend's new life began when...

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