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...MESSAGE TO GARCIA, Elbert Hubbard...
...promulgated" Elbert Hubbard's "A Message to Garcia" to the crew, instituted daily inspections, held a series of "all hands aft" services, where he quoted from Admiral Farragut and Stonewall Jackson. Since the Vance would be involved in Operation Market Time, the Navy's screening of Vietnamese coastal junk and sampan traffic for Viet Cong infiltrators, Arnheiter also insisted on a refresher course in small arms, ordered the purchase of a $950 speedboat from the ship's recreation fund. Though the 20-knot boat was supposedly to be used primarily for off-duty water skiing and swimming...
Last week Minneapolis Symphony Concertmaster Isidor Saslav acquired a new title: he is now the Elbert L. Carpenter Concertmaster of the Minneapolis Symphony. It makes him sound more like a university professor than a violinist - and there's the point. Borrowing a bit of academic fund-raising technique, the orchestra announced that it will establish 19 permanently endowed chairs, one for the principal player of each major instrument. Saslav's will be endowed by retired Minneapolis Lumber Executive Leonard G. Carpenter in honor of his late father, a founder of the orchestra. Minimum price tag for the plan...
Many profiles are fatuous. They open with anecdotes, ramble a while, then close with an anecdote or tag that is just dripping with Meaning. Collect all the last paragraphs of Yearbook articles and you'd have either the Key to the Cosmos or something Elbert Hubbard would have been happy to print...
...dissenting opinion was written by Chief Judge Elbert P. Tuttle, an Eisenhower appointee, who argued that the Georgia legislators had gone beyond their own constitution in barring Bond -without even considering the "grave" question of whether they had violated the guarantee of free speech. Judge Tuttle noted that the Georgia charter listed very specific qualifications for a lawmaker (age, residence, absence of a criminal record). To allow the legis lature to judge a duly elected member by "undefined, unknown and even constitutionally questionable standards," he said, "shocks not only the judicial, but also the lay sense of justice...