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...CRIMSON Review. Security officials are sifting reports of a small, foreign-looking man seen lurking at the offices of Boston Linotype Company (Review printers) at press time last Friday. The stranger soon disappeared. But could this mysterious apparition explain the curious title on the new episode: The Circle of ff...
Interested readers are referred to the Crimson Review, Friday, April 28, 1961, ff...
...ff Apparently intrigued by the freewheeling advantages of operating outside an established athletic conference-no unprofitable schedule commitments, no prying commissioners to police athletes' subsidies-the University of Washington's board of regents voted to follow in the steps of California, U.C.L.A. and U.S.C. (TIME, Dec. 23) and desert the 43-year-old Pacific Coast Conference. With Stanford also slipping away fast, the P.C.C. has one clear course left: divide up its $250,000 bankroll and dissolve.
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...best for Shaw's frustrated crusade. To G.B.S. "Dr. Johnson's Alphabet" of 26 letters was as obsolete as Roman numerals. What was needed, he insisted, was an alphabet large enough to cover all the language's 40-odd basic sounds. Such absurdities as having f, ff, gh and ph represent one single sound would be eliminated. Phone could be spelt with three letters, Shaw with only two. "The saving," said Shaw, "would pay for half a dozen wars, if we could find nothing better to spend it on." Though Shaw never settled...