Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adam Poe knocked on every door in Delaware, Ohio, until he had begged enough money to buy the town's unprofitable stagecoach inn. To the Methodist minister, little Delaware, 20 miles north of Columbus, seemed like the perfect site for a Methodist college...
...amusing, especially if you know The New Yorker like the inside of your favorite foulard. The humor depends too much on anagrams (Sawdorf-Postoria) and burlesques of well-known situations to suit our taste (the Thurber take-off scrambles grandfather, the attic bed and the six-cylinder Reo of Columbus, Ohio, fame in rather poor fashion). Good parody, it seems to us, should be funny in itself; but we hate to quibble and if you know what they're taking off from, the Namlerep piece and the Leigh Profile are both top-notch. We can't wait for the Lampoon...
...rains, Coach Jack Barnaby took time out to announce managerial selections for next season. Thomas B. McNulty '50, of Kirkland House and Delafield, Wisconsin, will get the varsity job, while positions of assistant manager and freshman manager will go respectively to Roy G. Clouse '50, of Lowell House and Columbus, Ohio, and Skiddy M. Lund '51, of Wigglesworth Hall and Boston...
Last week, without consulting the newsmen, attorneys for the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer gave up the fight; they forfeited the bonds in court. The Ledger-Enquirer management piously promised "not [to] abate its pursuit of full justice. . . ." But it apparently took the word of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation that it would be "impossible" to win the case "since [the Klan] would be able to furnish approximately 175 witnesses against the newspaper reporters." At week's end, City Editor Joe Hall quit in disgust...
Hamlet & Hancock. Among the prize English items: William Caxton's printing of The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye (1475), first book printed in English; one of the two known copies of the 1603 edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Top American purchases include: the only specimen of Columbus' handwriting in the New World; John Hancock's letter naming Washington commander in chief; the neatly penned Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin...