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.
Paul Scott Mowrer

Born: 1887
Died: 1971 (aged 84)
Bio: Paul Scott Mowrer was an American newspaper correspondent, born in Bloomington, Illinois. He studied at the University of Michigan and began his newspaper career as a reporter in Chicago, in 1905.
Known for:
- Balkanized Europe (1921)
- High Mountain Pond (1962)
- Hours of France in Peace and War (1918)
- Twenty-One and Sixty-Five (1958)