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Grey Owl's account makes these kittens sound like something out of a Walt Disney cartoon. One always walked erect, "staggering around like a decrepit old man." Another discovered he could ride on his mother's flat tail, would catch a ride whenever Jelly Roll waddled around the camp. Sometimes three kittens would ride, one passenger standing on the tail with one leg and marking time with the other on the floor, like a child scooting along on a Kiddie-Kar. Jelly Roll would pay no attention whatsoever...
...Fordham University, Father Svensson's arrival last week was eventful. The erect, twinkling-eyed Icelander turned out to be wearing the fedora hat of the late great priest-chancellor of Austria, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, with whom Father Svensson lived in Vienna and at whose death the Jesuit was present. Fordham's Jesuits made a quick deal with their colleague, bought him a new hat and acquired Monsignor Seipel's for the University museum...
...Erect, white-mustached General Sir Bindon Blood was last week appointed Chief of the Royal Corps of Engineers by King Edward, who thereby revived a Stuart office which lapsed in 1802.† Informed of his new job Sir Bindon remarked, "I was too old to go to France when I was 72 at the outbreak of war, but I am glad that I can be of service to my country now that I am nearly...
...Germany and France the dominating hierarchy of Europe. These nations actually signed his Four-Power Pact only to quarrel over the Ethiopian war and Der Führer's tearing up of the Treaty of Versailles. Last week began a great new effort by Italy and Germany to erect a European hierarchy with or without Britain or France, but definitely against Soviet Russia. This was all the more fate ful because Benito Mussolini was the first dictator to extend diplomatic recognition to the Soviet Union. Last week Il Duce was apparently ready to agree with Der Führer...
...pages in A. E. Hoisman are given over to a list of the poet's scattered writing; the remainder describe his early failures in Latin, his work in the Patent Office, his quarrels with other Latinists, his arrogance, acid humor, anti-social habits and desire to erect an imperishable monument to his name...