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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alibi for Dick Lauterbach is that he's a Dartmouth man, '35, but he's been around since, mostly for Life and Time and largely in China and Russia ("These are the Russians".) He's one of five war correspondents in this year's batch of Nieman fellows, now being reconverted to more permanent status, most of them for further foreign service...
...peddling process has become as ritualized as transactions in a Bagdad bazaar. The artist 1) mopes in a waiting room, 2) is waved in to see the cartoon editor, 3) unzips his briefcase, 4) hands over a batch of rough sketches. Small talk is permitted, but he never cries "This'll kill you!" The editor riffles through the roughs, seldom grins, hands most of the sketches back, holds out a few on approval. At lunchtime many of the artists get together at either of two Manhattan restaurants-Pen & Pencil or Danny's Hideaway-to talk over their troubles...
American secretary to the Rhodes trustees, took a look at the first 1,100 Yanks who went to Oxford that way (The American Rhodes Scholarships, Princeton University Press; $2). Had Rhodes scholarships produced a batch of Anglophiles? Aydelotte thinks not. Says he: "The American Rhodes scholar learns to respect his country as the jingo never does. He learns to be jealous of her action in those things that matter...
Broadway columnists were busy as swizzlesticks, mixing a fresh batch of superlatives. The comedian they sweated to honor was a young (31) ex-G.I. named Peter Lind Hayes...
Fact and Legend. Jay Monaghan, now state historian of Illinois but a former Colorado rancher himself (in partnership with Historian Lloyd Lewis), says that Tom's arrest gave Cheyenne and Denver cattle barons a bad turn. They retained a batch of lawyers to defend him, appealed his conviction to the Supreme Court, and when all else failed, sent him off to the Boulder Cemetery in a high-priced white-satin-and-silver coffin. Author Monaghan knows the Tom Horn country at first hand, has talked to dozens of oldtimers who saw Tom in the flesh, has been collecting...