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...Rush Dew Holt, the brash "Boy Senator" of the '30s who plummeted from fame almost as fast as he rose to it and has since been marking time in the State Legislature, Democrats have a candidate who is attempting a political comeback at the tender age of 38. In Funkhouser ("just call me R.J."), Republicans have a millionaire businessman who has yet to hold a major political office. With onetime U.S. Senator Neely ineligible to succeed himself as Governor (he is running for a seat in the House), the two are campaigning fiercely toward primaries next week...
...also a pinwheel satirist. He constantly kids the formalities of human discourse ('"Dat's da conditions dat prevail!'"). He is a relentless lampooner of high society who, in his nightclubs, has often suddenly leered over an especially low neckline with a solicitous '"Pardon me, madame, dew you feel a draft?'" Jimmy's own show business takes a constant beating from him. Perhaps the subtlest of all his comic achievements is his parody of the way in which many people from his own proletarian background maltreat the culture they so earnestly desire to achieve...
...editorial shocker pointed up one of the great areas of American ignorance about war. Americans are rightly opposed to the use of poison gas by U.S. troops - but for the wrong reasons. The U.S. imagination has been fed by lurid writings of super-scientists and pacifist writers, picturing a "dew of death" which would wipe out whole cities overnight. Real scientists scoff at any such invention. Gases today are basically the same as in World War I. The real reason for not using gas is not that it is inhumane or immoral, but that it is ineffective...
Sirs: About the time of the change from Standard to War Time, you printed a picture of a cow-"And what about the dew?" (TIME...
Tomorrow a second meeting will be held in New Lecture Hall at 9 o'clock where courses and study cards will be discussed. Keyes DeW. Metcalf, University Librarian, A. Chester Hanford, dean of the College, and Dean Leighton will speak...