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Notes & Asides

by William F. Buckley Jr.

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Dear Mr. Buckley:

A bespectacled curator demonstrated Edison’s first gramophone. Hairy ironmongers jumped; kindly ladies muttered; nine old parsons quickly retreated, stealthily tiptoeing. “Undoubtedly violins with xylophones,” yelled Zeke.

William F. Buckley Jr.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review magazine in 1955.

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