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While redemption-minded bondholders were rushing the banks, Frank Greene Dickinson, 45, economics professor at the University of Illinois, needled their consciences. He suggested that each individual buy enough bonds to cover his share of the $200,000,000,000 war debt (Dickinson's estimate).* Then everyone would burn these bonds in a gigantic "bondfire" next July 4, thereby wiping out the debt...
...Stroke, Charlie Loring (190); 7, Peter Roll (172); 6, Dick West (166); 5, John O'Brien, Jr. (210); 4, Marshall Cohan (172); 3, Selden Dickinson (187); 2, David White (160); bow, Charles Rimmer, Jr. (165); cox, Bill Longmaid...
...Novelist Edward Morgan Forster had written three books, brilliant, brittle as spun glass and about as nourishing as popcorn. Then he went to India with a Cambridge don, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, his friend and spiritual mentor...
...second was at the high, lovely, remote, forbidden city of Chandrapore in Central India, where "the spires of the Jain temples pierced up through the grey and white mists. . . ." There the tiny, fantastic, incompetent Maharajah put on religious festivals for them ("Tell me, Mr. Dickinson, where is God?"), talked English literature ("See, Mr. Dickinson, that balcony - did Hamlet climb up there to visit Juliet?") and gave Mr. Dickinson his palace. Says Forster: "He forgot that he had given it to me only two days before...
Introducing Chase Hall's cast of characters. Number One, Fred "form the battalion" Jennings, as his name implies, is a man of responsibility. Hailing from Texas, and more recently from Dickinson State Teachers Colleges, we have heard it said that he is a lucky hand at finding damsels in the potted palms of a local hotel lobby...