Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
E. Digby Baltzell

Born: November 14, 1915
Died: August 17, 1996 (aged 80)
Bio: Edward Digby Baltzell was an American sociologist, academic and author. He became an eminent professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and was credited with popularizing the acronym WASP.
Known for:
- Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia (1979)
- Philadelphia gentlemen (1958)
- Sporting gentlemen (1995)
- An American business aristocracy (1958)