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Conant--James Conant, the chap they just elected president of Harvard...
...that the van was operating more as a stern reminder than as a sleuth, on the theory that the "social solidarity" of the more than 1,000,000 set owners who do pay the tax would bring the 150,000 recalcitrants into line. Said a spokesman: "After all, a chap who doesn...
...neck and humbly accepting the spiritual chastisement that invariably followed. His pride took a sharp beating in his very first job, in the clinic of a lunatic asylum: he was nearly strangled to death by a patient whom he had urged the superintendent to release as "such a decent chap." It took another beating at the hands of the crusty old general practitioner who took him on as an assistant and harnessed him mercilessly to the back-breaking round of rural practice...
...plan for cultural development (TIME, June 18). "We are the more Canadian for being British," Massey once wrote. At times, his icy dignity and faultless manners have amazed even the English. Lord Cranborne, now the Marquess of Salisbury and Winston Churchill's Lord Privy Seal, once observed "Fine chap, Vincent, but he does make one feel a bit of a savage." Massey unbends rarely, although close friends who have seen him at charades rate him a better natural actor than his younger brother Raymond, long a U.S. stage and screen star (and now a U.S. citizen...
Asquith: Oh yes, that's right. (Yawns casually) Well...Good night, old chap...