Word: deweyitis
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...when David Randall was hired three years ago as a full professor. The new rare-book librarian had never taught a course in his life, had no Ph.D. (his only academic degree was an A.B. from Lehigh), and had proclaimed: "I don't know a thing about the Dewey decimal system, and I'm not going to learn. I've got a staff to do that." What is worse-although Randall is still confident that no one suspects-is that the key he wore and still wears was not issued by Phi Beta Kappa, but by Kappa...
Your photograph of Senator Kennedy surrounded by Oregon's "Cavemen" [March 16] brought back memories of a similar photograph of the Cavemen which appeared during the 1948 presidential campaign. The honored guest at that time was Thomas E. Dewey. PFC WILLIAM R. BUNGE
...Besides Losing Campaigner Dewey, Loser Estes Kefauver also capered with the cavemen...
...bill seemed as good as law when it went to the desk of Republican Governor George Dewey Clyde, 60, a good Mormon who had never been known to raise his voice loudly about anything. But this time George Clyde spoke up, sent the Sunday closing bill back to the legislature with a surprising, stinging veto message. Reasons for the veto: i) the bill was "inequitable" to small merchants; 2) through it. big merchants were seeking "to regulate competition"; 3) Utah's rich seven-day-a-week copper mines, not specifically exempted from Sunday closing, might be "seriously affected...
...Herter worked as a member of a team drafting foreign-policy speeches for U.S. Presidential Candidate Thomas E. Dewey. Teammate: Doug Dillon. Team coach: John Foster Dulles. Herter met Dwight Eisenhower in Paris in 1951, instantly joined the ranks of Republicans urging Ike to run for the presidency, helped as a campaign adviser...