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...there is always plenty to gloat over and to point out pride fully in the Yard. A stranger isn't so quick to notice that some of those glorious trees are now drunkenly askew, propped up like so many old ladies. Strangers are inclined to see only the starched bosom of Widener. And she misses the ugly excavations while dreaming over the calculated simplicity of Memorial Church. Then Vag introduces her to his Yardling friends, Goo-Goo the pigeon and Grumpy the squirrel. They accept her, so she "belongs." Vag is pleased at their approval. But when Goo-Goo makes...
...accomplish a scholastic task quickly. Part of his Harvard education is realizing that he cannot use every minute to a positive advantage. Yet he does use every minute well, because there is also a negative advantage. In wondering about the miles of knowledge which the University holds in its bosom, let him think of a third statement by Nock: "The University's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the University itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well...
...broad bosom of the Pacific Ocean enfolded Franklin Roosevelt last weekend. To its gusts he could throw the heavy cares of the Presidency, to its rollers the carking complications of politics. Behind for a while lay the names of Barkley, Thomas, Adams, McCarran, McAdoo. Ahead lay marlin, sailfish, tuna, albacore, and the wild wahoo. His secretaries put away a sheaf of delivered speeches. His fishing aides aboard the cruiser Houston unpacked a trunkful of rods, reels and tackle. Instead of shining paragraphs for the electorate, now there would be shining spoons, dancing feathers for big fish. While Harry Hopkins administered...
...Abraham's Bosom (Thurs. 10 p. m. NBC-Blue). Pulitzer Prize tragedy, depicting a Negro's struggle for education...
inveterate sage, author & traveler, arrived in Manhattan fresh from Doom and his annual spring visit with his bearded bosom friend, onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II. Minus his customary velvet jacket, his customary flowing bow tie, Octogenarian Bigelow in high good humor delivered himself to newshawks on this & that. On the Kaiser: "He doesn't set up as good a table as some of my neighbors." On Europe: "Next time I see you, Paris will be a provincial town of Germany with the people shouting 'Heil Hitler' in French." On Franklin Roosevelt: "President Roosevelt, I think...