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...first issue of the "Twelve Twenty-Five Express" contains an article by Robert C. Benchley, a member of the Class, as well as cartoons by his son, Nathaniel G. Benchley '38. Benchley's article, entitled "Sobering Statistics" is a satire on the articles of John Tunis '11, which appeared last year, criticizing the record of the Class...
...Benchley's statistics reveal "that practically nothing of consequence has been accomplished by its members in a quarter of a century. The Class has produced only one Bishop of Albania, or, at any rate, only one who later became Prime Minister. Only one member of the Class has caught a Giant Panda. We have only one Weather Man who advocates the "frontal method" (three dimensions) over the "surface method" (two dimensions). In all these years, only one member has been elected Village Clerk of Hewlett Harbor...
Died. Jane Moran Benchley, 84, mother of Humorist Robert Charles Benchley; after fortnight's illness; in Worcester, Mass...
Nathaniel G. Benchley '38 was chosen President of the Lampoon this week. Other officers elected were Robert O. Easton '38, the new Ibis; Nicholas Satterlee '38, Narthex; and William A. Evans, Jr. '38, Secretary...
...means see "Piccadilly Jim." Every character is perfectly cast (Benchley, Billie Burke, and Madge Evans among others), the P.G. Wodehouse story is a howl. But arrive at 3.00, 6.10, or 9.25, and miss the crimes of "The Crime of Dr. Forbes." The Movietone News is utterly uninteresting. A.C.B...