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Edward J. Rice (October 23, 1918 – August 8, 2001) was an American author, publisher, photojournalist and painter, born in Brooklyn, New York to Edward J. Rice, Sr. and Elsie (Becker) Rice. He was best known as a close friend and biographer of Thomas Merton. Rice wrote more than 20 books, including Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, a best-selling 1990 biography of the famous 19th-century explorer, and was the founder (1953) of Jubilee magazine. Life Rice attended Columbia University, where he became close friends with Merton, Robert Lax, and Robert Giroux (who later co-founded Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Rice was editor of the Jester humor magazine in his senior year; he graduated in 1940. He stood godfather for both Merton and Lax when each converted to Catholicism; Merton in 1938, and Lax five years later. Rice chronicled his friendship with Merton in the 1970 book The Man in the Sycamore Tree: The Good Times and Hard Life of Thomas Merton. Also in 1970, he published John Frum He Come, a book documenting the South Pacific cargo cults. Rice died August 8, 2001, in Sagaponack, New York USA. References External links Ed Rice profile by Mary Cummings, published in the Columbia alumni magazine, May 2001 Obituary . Discover the Ed Rice popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Ed Rice books.
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Rice v. Olson
Supreme Court of the United Statesone to seven years. He petitioned another state District Court for a writ of habeas corpus seeking release from the penitentiary on the grounds, among others, that he had been depr...
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Legendary Lessons
Claudia MazzuccoModern golf as it is practiced all over the world developed in the last thirty years. And yet, the legendary Walter Hagen, and some of his friends, would deliver an unexpected mess...
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Give the Dog a Bone
Darcey the Dachshund & Nicola ‘Milly’ MillbankIndulge your beloved pup with something a little bit special – handmade in your very own kitchenFrom mouthwatering biscuits and jerky, to delicious homecooked dinners and birthday ...
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Montana Ex Rel. Haire v. Rice
Supreme Court of the United StatesThe objection is made that no Federal question is presented by the record. It must, therefore, be determined whether the controversy turned in the state court upon any Federal ques...
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The Stone Age
Lesley-Ann JonesAn acclaimed rock and roll journalist evokes the legacy of The Rolling Stonesiconic, granitic, commercially unstoppable as a collective; and fascinating, contradictory, and occasio...
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Rice Et Al. v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp. Et Al.
Supreme Court of the United StatesRespondents in these two cases are warehousemen engaged in the business of operating public warehouses for the storage of grain in Illinois. Their warehouses are operated under lic...