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...prison code that Novelist Arthur Koestler described in Darkness at Noon, for tapping out the alphabet, echoed through the corridors of a Communist prison in Budapest. From their tapped-out conversations, top Hungarian Journalist Paul Ignotus and a young girl named Florence Matay, who could not see one another, fell in love. Last week they were honeymooning in Italy. For their story, see FOREIGN NEWS, After the Cinema...
...Reason to Go. Since the day in 1875 when Mormon Leader Brigham Young decided that his followers must have an academy to train Mormon teachers ("I want you to remember," he told its first permanent head "that you ought not to teach even the alphabet or the multiplication tables without the spirit of God. That is all. God bless you. Goodbye"), B.Y.U. has had a most uncertain career. Though it has turned out such men as Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, Senator Arthur Watkins and U.S. Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland (one of Franklin Roosevelt's "nine...
...that B is immediately below its equivalent, O, etc. By each letter is its numerical place in the alphabet. As it is, there is no relationship, but if you reverse the digits of the lower numbers, you get not 2 (02), 15, 11 and 5, but 20, 51, 11 and 50. Now there is an apparent relationship, but there must be an easier...
...tried to rush it, George Bernard Shaw might have succeeded in giving the English-speaking peoples a phonetic alphabet. Says the Smithsonian Torch, a slim house organ put out by the Smithsonian Institution for the museum set: "We are in complete accord with Bernard Shaw's campaign for a simplified alphabet. But instead of immediate drastic legislation, we advocate a modified plan...
Belloc was sent to an English public school, but here again the insular and continental were blended. "They gave us uneatable food and there was bad bullying," Belloc said of Edgbaston Oratory. "Yet I fitted in at last." The oratory's "School Alphabet'' of 1880 shows...