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Rochester, Wash. (pop. 300) is a flag stop 60 miles from Tacoma. Rochester is also the home town and laughingstock in trade of Dave James, 30-year-old Tacoma News-Tribune humorist, whose sly exaggerations are as American as roasting ears, would have tickled Artemus Ward, Mark Twain or Will Rogers...
...WHITEHAVEN EMPIRE-Grace Evans, Roy Mills, Artemus, New Yorkers, Will Wynn...
Harvard, that ancient institution on the bank of the Thames, which Artemus Ward described "as pleasantly situated in the Parke House, School Street, Boston," is the next to be considered. And the staid Harvard lads do not fare too well under female inspection...
PEOPLE, PEOPLE EVERYWHERE!-R. H. (Bob) Davis-Stokes ($3). Travel notes of a columnist that range from brief impressions written in Mexico and South Africa to scribblings in an airplane over California, and include anecdotes about Artemus Ward, discussions of the Regency of George IV and English rule of India...
Ridicule has always been a telling weapon in the fight against society's foibles, from Aristophanes to Sir' Roger de Coverly, and from Artemus Ward to H. L. Mencken. Such an attempt at ridicule as Princeton's may be too obvious to call forth more than a tolerantly amused laugh from old and young alike; still it will attract attention, and that is probably all its progenitors hoped to achieve. The splendid points of the program, the stab at the Congress that will drain its coffers painfully dry, the shaft directed at the sometime patriots who in return...