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Specifically, what is bothering me is the incomprehensible way in which Mr. August J. Limber '50 is able to correct an error on page three of today's paper, IN THE SAME ISSUE that the error appears in print. Can you explain this enigma for me? Roy M. Goodman...
...that is, at the same time, apologetic and compelling. His face is reposed, gentle, sad, and as inscrutable as that of a Monte Carlo croupier. Obsessively shy, he is always "Mr. Loewy" even to his longtime associates. Even to those who know him well he is something of an enigma. Said one longtime acquaintance: "After all these years, I'm not even sure that I like him!" Everything he does calls attention,-with skilled showmanship, to his work, so that observers at times get the strange feeling that he too is a design−by Loewy, of course...
Another summer enigma revolved around the Kremlin's new foe, Tito of Yugoslavia. Was Tito really Russia's foe or was this war of words well rehearsed? Should this country put a Communist dictatorship on the dole, and if so, for which reason: because Tito spat at Stalin or because Tito needed help...
...intransigent Bill Langer even dragged Winston Churchill into the debate, accusing him of serving with the Spanish forces against the U.S. in 1898.*When Churchill refuted the charge in a wire to Texas' Tom Connally, Langer exploded in almost unintelligible rage. Churchill, he roared, "is not an enigma wrapped in riddle; he is a cold-blooded foreign propagandist wrapped in a bag of aristocratic wind inside a worldwide graveyard which he helped to create and in which he feels so thoroughly at home that now he wants to do it all over again and get us into one more...
Specifically, what is bothering me is the incomprehensible way in which Mr. August Limber '50 is able to correct an error on page four in the Spring Golf Schedule in today's paper, on THE SAME DATE that the error appears in print. Can you explain this enigma for me? Edward F. Burke...