Story of Writing June 1, 2025

Scotch Whisky first appears in print, Charles Baudelaire publishes his landmark book "Les fleur du mal" or "Flowers of Evil," Margaret Chase Smith delivers her speech "Declaration of Conscience," the Heimlich maneuver is published, and it is the birthdays of Charles Kay Ogden and Colleen McCullough - with a reading from Baudelaire's "Les fleur du mal."