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...adequate leadership. Your article mentions the names of Milton and Hampden. Those, as you rightly claim, are names which still mean something to us ... We don't see how people who support McCarthy can have the nerve to lecture us upon our alleged failure to remember Hampden . . . VERNON BARTLETT News Chronicle London
...quoted Webster, under WORLD, with the paradigm, "All the world loves a lover," and not "love a lover." I gave him Century, and collective nouns, with "herd" as an example, and of course, Gray, "The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea." Not "wind." I followed with Bartlett's quotations, with 52 instances of "world" followed by "is" and not once with "are." I politely called his attention to the fact that Merriam-Webster is hyphenated and that his new IBM electric typewriter had skipped the hyphen...
Crazylegs (Hall Bartlett; Republic) is an agreeably amateurish movie about professional football players. Produced in Hollywood by Hall (Navajo) Bartlett on a shoestring ($145,000), the film tells the life story of Wisconsin's All-America Elroy ("Crazylegs") Hirsch and is chiefly remarkable for the fact that Footballer Hirsch plays himself on the screen. Since he looks like a dark-haired Kirk Douglas and meets every cinema crisis with the wooden impassivity of Alan Ladd, Hirsch easily passes most of Hollywood's requirements for a leading...
...that comes to hand is a native princess (Suzan Ball). Eventually, Jeff gets fed up with his babes in the woods, and goes to bed with a bottle of whisky. "Sleep," he murmurs, "that's the stuff that knits the raveled sleave of care." But one session with Bartlett does not make an egghead, and next day Jeff is right back in the workaday world, braving the poison darts that come whistling through the Temple of the Rain Gods. All in all, the picture goes a long way toward explaining the nervous market...
Overjoyed at the Green's first victory over "fair Harvard," Professor Edwin J. Bartlett, head of the Dartmouth Chemistry Department, celebrated the event in verse...