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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Frank Groves / The Bulletin
June 16, 2008
The first half of the 20th century was blessed by the erudite, irascible editorial writer of the Baltimore Sun, Henry Louis Mencken. Authority on classical music and author of the scholarly “The American Language,” Mencken suspected every politician of being an egotistical....