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...friend, Elwyn Potash, who now attends Harvard, testifies to that. Elwyn belonged to Mida Shipa Fraternity at Bowser. There were several other such fraternities such as Supplia Schools, Stata Tisha, etc. Altogether there were about 2,300 students at Bowser. With such a large student body, Elwyn had always felt that the Student Club must be rolling in coin...

Author: By Wheaton LA Flange. and Murgatroyd Laverne, S | Title: DOPE | 9/17/1943 | See Source »

...remembers he could never get into the Club because the boys from the State Tisha Fraternity were always there first. He remembers, too, that he was not allowed to bring his young wife to the campus after 8:00 P.M. (Elwyn was a civilian; hence he did not think in terms of 2000) because of over-crowding the facilities. Surely, Elwyn remembers thinking at the time, if such is the case, the Student Club must be doing well...

Author: By Wheaton LA Flange. and Murgatroyd Laverne, S | Title: DOPE | 9/17/1943 | See Source »

...Elwyn was disillusioned. Just the other day, he received a short note from Bowser...

Author: By Wheaton LA Flange. and Murgatroyd Laverne, S | Title: DOPE | 9/17/1943 | See Source »

...Elwyn Boorish as Usual...

Author: By Wheaton LA Flange. and Murgatroyd Laverne, S | Title: DOPE | 9/17/1943 | See Source »

...Elwyn Brooks ("Andy") White for eleven years wrote the oxymoronic introductory paragraphs to each New Yorker issue. The tone of these paragraphs, a kind of precocious, off-hand humming, has been imitated but never exactly reproduced by his successors. In 1937 he resigned from The New Yorker, after writing an inimitable farewell whose gamut ranged from a baritone sigh to a neurasthenic squeak. True to his theme (that the town was getting too much for him) he went off to live in the Maine countryside, at North Brooklin. Thence he contributes a monthly page (considerably duller than his New Yorker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Humorist | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

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