Kane (Anthony Warde), but the series proved to be not as popular as the Flash Gordon serials.

Another serial was Republic's 15-part serial The Purple Monster Strikes (1945), aka D-Day on Mars, with one of the first instances of alien invasion. And in Columbia's 15-episode serial Bruce Gentry - Daredevil of the Skies (1949), the hero (Tom Neal) fought off the genre's first flying saucers.

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Click-on the Revealing Epic Music CD button to the left, or the album cover above to hear long snips of each album track. You can buy the CD by clicking the links indicated at either song track sample page.

The (Free) players - RealPlayer or QuickTime - will play long samples of all ten songThe Left Cannot Win, based mostly on one data point. When George McGovern got stomped by Richard Nixon in 1972, it was taken as proof for an entire generation of politicians that a leftist political candidate is electoral poison, and so must be prevented from trying.

But this is garbage history. For one thing, as New York's Ed Kilgore writes, the 1972 election was not lost because McGovern was some fire-breathing Leninist radical. On the contrary, while he was on the party's left flank, he had been a loyal Democrat for his entire career, building up a party apparatus virtually from scratch in South Dakota and serving in the Kennedy administration. Nixon won mainly because he was an incumbent and the economy was extremely strong, because the civil rights