Sublime

“Live dangerously—carefully.”

During this period, while he was publicly proclaiming—over and over—his devotion to rest and relaxation, he was working at a headlong pace to add new advertising revenues for his radio and television stations, calling Edwin Weisl Sr., Hearst Newspapers counsel, in New York to bring pressure on some advertisers, using Jenkins to bring pressure on

Goad had been corresponding for a while with Richard Ramirez, who as the “Night Stalker” was responsible for killing over a dozen people. “After I sent him the Rape issue, his letters stopped,” recalls Goad. “One of Ramirez’s pen pals later informed me that Ricky had asked him, ‘Don’t you think that issue went a little too far?’”

In 1869, in Boston, on the 100th anniversary of Humboldt’s birth, Agassiz, by then America’s most renowned naturalist, would recount in a long speech the incredible life of his mentor, the monumental productivity right up until the end, the trip to the Urals in 1829, the historic series of lectures in Berlin, the friendship with Goethe, the new

with the history in potted two hundred-word biographies, brief anecdotes and did-you-know? trivia corners. The

Tom Wolfe.”