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...potential were the mark of a good magazine, the Lampoon would at last satisfy the critics who monthly expect the publication finally to regain its legendary glory. For in the current issue J. F. Fletcher and cartoonists L. Draper Hill and P. M. Herrera display the talent necessary to revive an all-too dusty tradition of humor. But potential is not always interesting or amusing, and neither is the current issue...
...Richard Fletcher, 47, director of student affairs, fell the job of investigation; he swiftly recommended disciplinary action. Virginia's able President Colgate Darden, onetime state governor, heard the evidence, expelled four undergraduates, suspended seven more for one' year and withheld the diploma of a recent graduate. A special investigating committee of the university's board of visitors backed him up. So did the full board in principle, although it shortened some of the suspensions...
...thoroughly entangled in the effort to defend tradition. Most of the suspended students came from distinguished families, and the families hired distinguished lawyers to carry on the fight. Meanwhile, a group of students led by newly elected Student Council President William L. Tazewell began a countercampaign to get Fletcher fired from his job of student director. At semester's end Tazewell reported to his council: "A majority of the student body have neither faith . . . nor trust in ... the administration...
...Fletcher Riley, a candidate for governor, was stopped by California police on the way to visit his estranged wife and relieved of a revolver and a rifle. Charley Huff, running for secretary of state, limited his plea for votes to the boast that he was "the best damn cowboy singer in the world." In Sequoyah County, E. W. Floyd, a brother of the late Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd, won the Democratic nomination for county sheriff. And Homer Cox, just declared sane after his mother asked an examination by a sanity board, lost his race for secretary of state. Sighed...
...DIARY NORTH AND SOUTH (268 pp. abridged)-by William Howard Russell, edited by Fletcher Pratt-Harper ($4). "There entered, with a shambling, loose, irregular, almost unsteady gait, a tall, lank, lean man considerably over six feet in height, with stooping shoulders and long pendulous arms terminating in hands of extraordinary dimensions . . . He was dressed in an ill-fitting, wrinkled suit of black, which put one in mind of an undertaker's uniform at a funeral . . . His turned-down shirt collar disclosed a sinewy, muscular yellow neck; and above that . . . bristling and compact like a riff of mourning pins, rose...