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Once he sounded a note strangely akin to modesty: "Do not think of my plays as Oklahomas averaging $120,000 a week or else flopping. My audiences are more or less select and . . . seldom average capacity." But elsewhere in his torrent of advice, the old man sounded reassuringly Shavian: "I rank a revival of Caesar and Cleopatra as the nearest thing . . . to a gilt-edged security...
...after day, the Scripps papers thundered in behalf of mild-mannered Angus Ward, ridiculing the Red accusation that he had beaten up a Chinese servant, as akin to "saying Gandhi was a big bully." Under the sarcastic caption, THE EAGLE SCREAMS, Cartoonist...
...penalty of dismissal for failure to "pass" the loyalty oath is akin to a determination of treason; because of this, the proceeding is in effect, criminal. The Supreme Court, in US v. Lovett, 328 US 303. 317-18 (1946) reviewed the required proceeding safeguards in a criminal proceeding. "An accused in court must be tried by an impartial jury, has a right to be represented by counsel, he must be clearly informed of the charges against him, the law which he is charged with violating must have been passed before he committed the act charged, he must be confronted...
...hold-'em" alliance between the defensive and offensive units that prompted Cal's Safety Man Carl Van Heuit to apologize to the offense after a 35-21 victory over U.C.L.A. Never before, with platoons rushing in & out of the fray, had football been so akin to modern war and its specialists so dependent on G.H.Q...
Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. '20 was elected president of the Clubs for the year 1949-50 to succeed William M. Akin '19; Archer O'Reilly, Jr. '29 was reelected secretary, and H. S. Payson Rowe '23 was chosen treasurer to succeed Robinson...