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...Johnson won a Harvard Lampoon citation for the second year running. Last year he shared Worst Discovery honors with Frank Sinatra; now the Cantabrigian funnymen acclaimed his acting in Thrill of a Romance as the year's Worst Single Performance (male). Eddie Bracken was chosen Most Unamusing Comedian. Oscar Winner Joan Crawford, 38, was acclaimed Oldest Actress, with Joan Bennett, 36, getting honorable mention...
Britons are given to labeling themselves with strange-sounding titles indicative of their respective towns, viz.: Oxford, Oxonian; Cambridge, Cantabrigian, which are the most famous. There are others throughout Great Britain, often piquant and quaint, like Liverpool, Liverpudlian; Blackpool, Blackpudlian, and perhaps best of all Giggleswick, Giggleswicket...
Richards, a literary critic and a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, wrote the first book about modern semantics, The Meaning of Meaning, with Charles Kay Ogden, a fellow Cantabrigian...
TIME is appalled at Cantabrigian Miss Franklin's pronunciation of what...
...painful burden. Two classes, indeed, are sheltered by the university: those livers on the fat of the land, the House masters, and the young, unmarried tutors. But these constitute a small minority. The rest have independence thrust upon them, and are cast out to struggle in the Cantabrigian wilderness...