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...Russian alphabet is still away at war. Even on the eve of victory not a word is written in this country which is not a weapon. Every sentence written in Russia must help beat Hitler or help build a Communist Russia that will make another such war impossible...
Completing the Alphabet. General Eisenhower took over three separate U.S. and R.A.F. tactical air forces in North Africa. He soon made them one, and put Coningham in command. Long before, grinning and folding his hairy arms on his chest, Coningham had said: "The Germans know war from A to about Y. They don't know Z." Now he proceeded to teach them something about...
Within two years after William James Sidis' father gave him alphabet blocks, he was writing French and English on a typewriter. He was then four. At five, employing a formula of his own devising, he could instantly name the day of the week on which any date in history fell. When he was six his mother surrendered him to a first-grade teacher. The teacher promptly surrendered to William. The most famous infant prodigy of his generation knew more about fractions than...
...Putsch" on Mellon Hall has ended with the end-of-the-alphabet boys in complete control of entry D. Rumor has it that one or two of the rooms are slightly crowded. We wouldn't know, but when we asked Johnny Pugh what he was doing on the ground outside the window of D-12 Sunday evening, he informed us that all of his roommates had taken a deep breath at the same time. They're working on a timing plan which will enable them to stay in the room and breathe at the same time. Meanwhile Al Zadnichek...
Interglossa. A chapter on the evolution of the alphabet opens the book; a section on the need for an international auxiliary language closes it. Author Bodmer reviews the efforts to create such an auxiliary, beginning in 1661, when Aberdeen's George Dalgarno invented his Universal Character and Philosophical Language. He comes down to Basic English and its current competitors (Iret, Swensen, Aiken), in all of which Bodmer sees virtues. But he does not share Winston Churchill's complete enthusiasm for Basic. He favors a synthetic interlanguage rather than a simplified ethnic one. He and Hogben have drafted...