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Getting back to John Yovicsin, I want to say "Stick with John a few years and you won't be sorry." I read a lot about seven men quitting the Harvard football team and the reason for quitting. They (the sports writers) can't fool me. John just got the men separated from the boys...
Testifying for Thompson was Lampoon Circulation Manager John A. Herbert, who explained that the alleged holdup was a part of the magazine's Fool's Week initiations. Santa was another Lampoon candidate...
...great intellectual grunion-run, and I was diverted. I wandered through the alley-ways and knocked on brown-wood doors, and was admitted. Once inside, I watched the men speak lines and gesticulate, and somehow failed to understand. Beside a soundless stage my doubt played the part of a fool, incapable, strutting in a stupid pride, mute, dead, responding to a pair of strings attached to twitching thumbs...
Tutorial succeeds best when it involves only one student and one tutor. Then the motivation is not the grade, but the desire to prove one's thoughts to a man one respects. To be caught up unprepared in an individual tutorial makes one feel like a fool, and avoiding this is a greater motivation than the possibility of an honors grade at the end of the term...
...will sell. Jennie's voice is still maturing from callow to mellow, but it is husky and wholesome, sounds fine in simple arrangements of When I Fall in Love and the little-girlish My Very Good Friend in the Looking Glass, timidly torchy in I'm a Fool to Want You. From her Victor royalties, Jennie has an excellent prospect of becoming rich enough to retire before she is old enough to vote, but to do it she will have to outdraw some other new singers. A sampling of competing canaries...