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    Jim Bishop

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    Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons. ↗


    — Jim Bishop

    #fall #autumn

    A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. ↗


    — Jim Bishop

    #bartender #book #critic #drunk #good

    Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. ↗


    — Jim Bishop

    #being #collected #date #daughter #dollar

    A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day. ↗


    — Jim Bishop

    #born #conceived #day #dies #grows

    At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly. ↗


    — Jim Bishop

    #friendly #looks #possible #tomorrow

    It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. ↗


    — Jim Bishop

    #away #difficult #far #far away #future

    Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been. ↗


    — Jim Bishop

    #been #care #else #everyone #going

    Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. ↗


    — Jim Bishop

    #american #american men #fun #golf #having

    Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt. ↗


    — Jim Bishop

    #between #losers #putt #two #who

    It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him. ↗


    — Jim Bishop

    #both #despises #enslaved #father #him






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    Did you know about Jim Bishop?

    Perhaps his most critically acclaimed book was FDR's Last Year: April 1944-April 1945 which brought to public awareness the secrecy that surrounded President Franklin D. He remained until 1945. He was then founding editor of Gold Medal Books (the juvenile division of Fawcett Publications) until 1953.

    The Day Christ Died was made into a television film in 1980 starring Chris Sarandon as Jesus Christ and Keith Michell as Pontius Pilate. In 1957 he started his column "Jim Bishop: Reporter" with King Features Syndicate which continued until 1983. Perhaps his most critically acclaimed book was FDR's Last Year: April 1944-April 1945 which brought to public awareness the secrecy that surrounded President Franklin D.

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