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Show Sure To James Ford Rhodes, the famous historian, his-torian, said at a dinner in Boston: "In studying great men's lives yciu are amazed at the abuse their contemporaries con-temporaries heap on their best work. Wagner is an example. The finer the masterpiece Wagner turned out,( the viler the ridicule that would be visited on him. Jealousy? No, stupidity." Doctor Rhodes smiled and ended In his epigrammatic way: "When you put your best foot foremost fore-most people are sure to step on it." |