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Since that faraway day more than half-a-century ago, Brown victories over Harvard are about as rare as the visiting French professor who a few years ago didn't turn in final grades to University Hall; and, as you know, when notified in Paris of his error, cabled back to give everybody A's because he enjoyed the class so much...
Harry Bridges' long nose was caught in a wringer last week. He had shut down the West Coast waterfront for more than 45 days. He had choked off business in faraway Hawaii, smothered the West Coast's trade with Alaska, had tied up 222 of the coast's 375 ships, costing shippers and shipowners millions of dollars a day. The strike was another dramatic show of power by U.S. labor's second most recalcitrant leader (after John Lewis). But last week Harry Bridges was hollering for help...
Lewis Kokeny, mild-mannered deputy president of the Hungarian branch of the movement, made a keynote speech with a curious iron-curtain slant. Said he: "We modern Esperantists do not concern ourselves any more with the old idea of corresponding in Esperanto with people in faraway places . . . That was an oldfashioned, romantic idea . . . Our immediate neighbors are what count." Western Esperantists, he admitted, still believe that their language should remain "politically neutral." On this point Kokeny was firm. "Here we are convinced that Esperanto must cooperate with progress and that neutrality is not possible...
...Most. . . are so busy that they stay in their offices, read the headlines, and say what they can about the news. No wonder the product is often dreary." Considering the pressures against them, it was also no wonder, he said, that many ducked local controversies and took refuge in faraway topics...
...taking the title of the Anglican Bishop of Madras, Cole appeared at one of the better known English public schools, and confirmed several of the schoolboys in the chapel. Why his archaic vestments did not give him away at the time, I cannot imagine, but perhaps as Bishop of faraway Madras, the age and condition of his robes did not matter...