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A column a day keeps the sheriff away and when you've got the habit, you keep right on, no matter what your feelings are -- or your readers'. It helped L. C. to bear incertitude with fortitude.
The make-up seldom varied. It must open with a poem, preferably an authentic L. C. Horatian ode. His odometer registered three a week. It was his line -- "master of the Horatian line," he had been called. As thus: