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...chance, Paine (as he began to respell himself) encountered Robert Aitken, a printer then trying to start a magazine for genteel readers. Paine found it easy to fill the magazine with elevated essays on such topics as science, dueling and marriage. His patriotic poem on the death of General James Wolfe at Quebec helped build circulation to a record-breaking 1,500. As the god Mercury describes the scene...
...varsity six man Gil Welch said, "You're never sure you'll win until you go over the finish line first, but I like to think in terms of probabilities, and I'd bet on us no matter what the odds." Harvard Heavyweights Stroke Scholle 7 Howeff 6 Aitken 5 Brock 4 Kevins 3 Kemp 2 Bixby Bow White Coxswain Larson...
Stroking the new varsity was Ollie Scholle, a senior who had been docked with a knee injury since rowing in the number-two position of the 1974 varsity. In the important stern seats were two sophomores, Tom Howes and George Aitken...
Fleet Street has not seen the likes of him since young Max Aitken (later Lord Beaverbrook) invaded Britain's newspaper scene more than half a century ago. There was, of course, the entry of a second Canadian in 1959. But Roy Thomson, at 65, was too old to provoke the image of an upstart interloper. Australian Rupert Murdoch has not only arrived at the same age as Aitken (37); he also shares-indeed, may even exceed -the Beaver's hustle...
...campuses in 1964. Unlike Golden Curtain, this book makes no attempt to be constructive, and indeed is patently false in many respects. Aitken and Beloff find it typically American for college coeds to approach perfect strangers with plowing descriptions of Negro sexual prowess (which, of course, is much greater than white). The authors also leave the impression that many U.S. churches use conveyor belts to serve worshipers with iced wine and neatly wrapped wafers during Communion service. Short Walk is only a youthful indiscretion, like roof climbing or too much sherry at an Old Lit dinner, but it may also...