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...Worth to get away from it all, Louisiana's ailing Democratic Governor Earl K. Long, 63, obstinately ignored his grievous state of health (a continuing mental crackup, failing heart, aftereffects of a mild stroke), declared that he is as knowledgeable as all his doctors and psychiatrists put together, "dis-hired" the whole passel of them. In the Will Rogers suite of the Hotel Texas next day, in rumpled drawers and sports shirt, Long received Methodist Parson G. W. French Jr., president of the city's General Ministers Association. After Long had rambled on for an hour...
Your interesting article on Hawaii in the March 23 issue is incomplete in omitting the happenings between 1893 and 1898. My recollection is that Hawaii was annexed, then dis-annexed, due to differences of opinion and understanding between Liliuokalani and President Grover Cleveland and U.S. Commissioner "Paramount" Blount. The latter acted too hastily. The Republicans made much of this to the tune of Little Annie Rooney...
...Jeopardy. According to its boosters, Custer College has "higher scholastic standards, a better basketball team, and a lower rate of pregnancy" than any little coed college in the Midwest. The haloed hoopster of the basketball team, a stilt-high science major named Ray Blent (played with engaging cyclonic dis-coordination by Robert Elston), is in love with the pert, bouncy girl cheerleader (Nina Wilcox). When $1,500 in fix money is anonymously planted in his overcoat, visions of marrying his sugarplum dance momentarily through Blent's troubled head. Between the girl, the game, and his duty, poor Blent...
...male-female dis tribution, however, has apparently reached a balance in the last three, she said, with roughly 60 percent male and 40 percent female students. These figures represent a sharp upsurge of female attendance over earlier sessions...
Whamm! Bam! Wowee! And after it was all over, de Lawd say, "Much obliged to you, Peter and de Seraphim. I think we has saved Eternity fo at least another millenium. Dis meeting is adjourned...