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...announced a new school: the Des Moines University of Lawsonomy. From time to time, a few students of varying ages were seen through the high picket fence, but there seemed to be no faculty. Founder Lawson, a pioneer aviation man who claims that he built the first double-decker airliner and got the U.S. started on its aircraft industry, kept out of sight. As far as Des Moines could tell, no one ever graduated with a degree in Lawsonomy...
...answer reached Beverley (like most of his answers) in the form of a three-decker cliché. He was unhappy because "the clouds were gathering over Europe ... the tragedy of Geneva hastening to its final act ... the disciples of rearmament beginning to raise their voices." And what, if anything, could a playboy like Beverley do to disperse the clouds, delay the final act, silence the raised voices? All I Could Never Be, Nichols' second autobiographical book, tells exactly what Beverley did; but, as it is well spiced with rose-geranium anecdotes and set against a backdrop of Mayfair...
...Paintings ; Contemporary Events: How to Read the News, February-May 1952; How to Buy Antique Accessories. ¶ Purchase of the week-by the University of California at Los Angeles: the famed 12,000-volume Victorian literature collection once owned by British Publisher Michael Sadleir. Items: hundreds of rarer "three-decker" novels and yellowbacks by such oldtime bestsellers as "Captain" Frederick Marryat (Mr. Midshipman Easy), Mrs. Henry (East Lynne) Wood and Edward Bulwer-Lytton. ¶ New York CitySchool Superintendent William. Jansen announced that, beginning next fall, his high schools will have the most lifelike atomic-energy classes ever, complete with real...
Preventive War. In Miami, Stanley Decker went to a party given by the American Airmotive Corp., got roaring drunk, tangled in five fist fights, was led off by three cops, drew a $10 fine, explained to the judge: "I was there to keep the other guests from acting the way I did. I'm a private detective...
...George Samson, 57, known as "Sambo" to many of the boys, was experiencing a different kind of pride that night. Just a year before, the Chatham Traction Co. had given him a fine chiming clock in honor of 40 faithful years in their employ. As Samson mounted his double-decker bus last week, to take it once again over a run he knew as well as the back of his hand, he was looking forward to another company dinner the next night, at which he would rank as an acknowledged elder statesman among bus drivers...