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Kitty's death was almost the end of a great chapter in Harvard scholarship. Surviving him, but long since retired, are two other legendary professors of English at Harvard who were born in the same year (1860) as he: Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland and Bliss Perry. Kitty, the last to retire, stuck it out to 76 (TIME, Feb. 17, 1936). At his last lecture the room was crowded with reverent Harvard visitors. Kitty lectured as usual on The Winter's Tale. But he did not end his lecture as usual by marching up the aisle and uttering...
...mile marching race. Wrote the 250th: "If we don't finish first without having to write our Congressmen, we'll let you yoo-hoo at us." At a bathing-beauty revue at the El Paso (Tex.) Country Club, brimstony Major General Innis Palmer Swift, commander of Fort Bliss (and one of the judges) watched the girls prance by, and owlishly hooted "Yoo-Hoo." And out of the Memphis Incident came World War II's first nickname for a U.S. outfit: the 110th's marchers became "The Yoo-Hoo Battalion...
Symphony in D for the Dodgers had much of the Dodgers' elusive, faunlike charm, and rated a place with such sporting music as Constant Lambert's Prizefight, Arthur Honegger's Rugby and Skating Rink, the ballets Card Game (Igor Stravinsky), Checkmate (Arthur Bliss...
...Spier, is missing during a concert, the orchestra and audience know why. When he arrives late, smiles and raises two fingers, everyone knows it was twins; he is one of El Paso's leading obstetricians. The El Paso Symphony has numerous Mexican players, several Cavalry officers from Fort Bliss. An Indian janitor, Chief Guadalupe Serna, a dead ringer for the brave on the buffalo nickel, plays the bull fiddle. At one time the orchestra's schedule had to be accommodated to the schedule of the Southern Pacific Railroad, because the clarinetist was a Pullman conductor...
...salvos were uncommonly close, as you may have noticed, though I am told that some of those between decks mistook them for our own guns firing, a good example of the proverb 'When ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise...