Word: deweyitis
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...Already fearful of budget slashes, Mumford unhappily allowed: "I cannot account for its absence." Hearts, heavy over their failure, some library employees set lobster pots all about the capital in hopes of snaring Rooney's elusive tune. Last week, to the everlasting glory of the Dewey decimal system, a reading-room worker made the catch, vindicated Mumford. Rooney, face red as a lobster's, had got the title wrong, owed apologies to Wise Guy Mumford. The song: I'd Rather Be a Lobster Than a Wise...
Died. Arthur Fisher Bentley, 86, philosopher, political scientist, author (The Process of Government), collaborator with the late John Dewey on Knowing and the Known; in Paoli...
...Daily News publisher's office, and the 10-ft.-by-10-ft. cubicle where he retires to write his "Editor's Notebook," Knight is in closer touch with reality than most publishers, and has often irritated his fellow businessmen. He backed Wendell Willkie, mistrusted Tom Dewey, shied away from Herbert Hoover in 1932 because he felt that Hoover "knew very little about the human equation...
...Whisper. There were, in fact, many gasps and a few shudders when Brownell became Attorney General. He was a professional politician entering a Justice Department already reeking and rocking from too many professional politicians. Brownell had been the strategist for the presidential campaigns of Tom Dewey and Dwight Eisenhower; he was the hotel-suite mastermind who liked to note that he had never spent so much as a night on a campaign train. Politician Brownell was treated like one of the boys when he came up for confirmation by the politicians of the U.S. Senate. They went through the motions...
Originally, the county was inhabited by Sartorises, Varners and Comptons. Now it is just about all Snopeses-the twins, Bilbo and Vardaman Snopes, Wallstreet Panic Snopes, Admiral Dewey Snopes, Byron and Virgil Snopes and Montgomery Ward Snopes. (The reader is grateful for an occasional mnemonic rhyme, e.g., one Snopes is called Eck, "the one with the broken neck.") Malignant, hated, despised, physically maladroit, the Snopeses prevail over better men by their rapacity and lack of pride or shame. They are like monkeys on the backs of men, and they move to "the blind glare of the blind money...