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...signers: John Chamberlain, John Dos Passos, Max Eastman, James T. Farrell, Alfred Kazin, William Phillips, Katherine Anne Porter, Allen Tate, Lionel Trilling, Peter Viereck, Robert Penn Warren, Thornton Wilder, Edmund Wilson...
...These hagglings were mild in comparison to other how-de-dos of the past. Among the most notable: during the London games of 1908, staggering Italian Dorando Pietri was dragged across the finish line of the marathon by Britons wishful to see him beat the U.S.'s fast-closing Johnny Hayes. Dorando was helped to his feet four times in all, and Hayes, after an outraged American protest, was finally declared the winner. Afterwards, both turned "pro" and cashed in on the publicity with a marathon race at the old Madison Square Garden. Dorando won by 60 yards...
...life to present their views by television convincingly," the National Association of Radio & Television Broadcasters issued Campaigning on TV, an 18-page pamphlet studded with admonitory italics ("You will begin your talk with a large audience -your job is to keep that audience") and containing a long list of dos and don'ts. Samples...
Charles Eustis Bohlen '27, counselor to the State Department; John Ciardi, Briggs-Copeland assistant professor of English: John R. Dos Passos '16, novelist; Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, author and editor and a member of the Yale University Corporation; David Edward Owen, professor of History and chairman of the Committee on General Education; and Warren Abner Seavey '02, Bussey Professor...
...hostess (he is a widower), the new ambassador brought along his 20-year-old daughter Tomiko, a shy, pretty girl who speaks little English, prefers Western dress. Tomiko is due for some surprises: she prepared herself for her trip to the U.S. by plowing determinedly through works of Faulkner, Dos Passos, Hemingway and Sinclair Lewis...