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Last week, once more demonstrating that there is room for sensitivity as well as soap in radio script shows, crack Producer-Director Corwin put his hand to another feature called 26 by Corwin. In the first program, a bantering radio ABC, Author Corwin elfed blithely through both the alphabet and a broadcasting studio...
...have failed to appreciate . . . the laudable and sensible attempts of our Sovereign's royal father to spelg the English language as it ought to be spelt. . . . The English language cannot be spelt, because there is no English alphabet. We make shift with a Latin alphabet...
...attempts to make a foreign alphabet of 26 letters do the work of 42 are pitiable. We write the same vowel twice to give it a different sound. . . . We also double the following consonant ... or make two consonants represent simple sounds . . . for which the Latin alphabet does not provide. . . . Those who think this a satisfactory solution overlook the stupendous fact that it takes twice as long to write two letters as to write...
...first time since it began in 1819, the University catalogue this year takes official recognition of the alphabet...
...seems that hard work does not always go unrewarded, for after years of valiant effort, David W. Bailey, the University's energetic publications agent, and Harvard's staunchest alphabet supporter, has at last realized his cherished ambition, and has alphabetized the catalogue...