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August 6, 1960

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The Fractional Man: A Confession of U. S. D. Quincy

Vance Bourjaily

Ulysses Snow Davids Quincy is a fractional man: a quarter Colonial American; a quarter Welsh, and half Lebanese. At 19 he volunteered in an American …