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...oldtime newspaperman once said to Stringfellow Barr: "You know the trouble with the present generation? They've never read the minutes of the previous meeting...
...nine years at tiny St. John's College in Annapolis, Md., Stringfellow ("Winkie") Barr has helped his students catch up on the minutes of mankind's most memorable meetings: the "100 Great Books," from Homer to Bertrand Russell. (His list, which is flexible, differs from the University of Chicago's, now numbers 109.) Last week President Barr announced he was quitting St. John's, going off somewhere else to start a new college-almost exactly like the one he was leaving...
Participation in the competition is voluntary, but practically all new students enter it. Monetary prizes are awarded to the winning club. These prizes come from from the bequest of Mrs. James Barr Ames, for whom the competition is named. Clubs are usually informally organized and are named after famous jurists such as Holmes and Brandeis...
...weeks ago, he drew three walks. Fourth time up he announced: "I'll make 'em walk me again." Then he went into his dance. While Pitcher Johnny Lanning tried to find the plate, Brooklyn's brat writhed, wiggled, squatted and crowded the plate. Umpire George Barr ordered Stanky to get back in the batter's box and behave. When the count got to three balls and two strikes, Stanky carefully fouled off any pitch that came near the plate, finally got the fourth ball...
...First Tunic." In the midst of national confusion, President Félix Gouin kept a Socialist calm, said, "The main virtue of the Constitution is that it exists." Other leaders deplored the possibility that Frenchmen might plump for the Red-inspired charter simply by default. Philippe Barrès, editor of Paris-Presse, put it this way: "What would worry me . . . would be the spectacle of a people so disillusioned as to adopt a new Constitution in the same way as a conscripted soldier arriving gloomily at the barracks accepts the first tunic which a sergeant tosses...