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Professors in three departments have defended J. Robert Oppenheimer in reaction to the protest of his appointment as William James Lecturer by Edwin Ginn '18 a Boston financier. One called Ginn "a fool...
...Write a thousand words a day for the next five years ... A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself...
...magazine. In 1936 a scrappy, pug-nosed man from Utah took over as editor. His name, Bernard DeVoto, soon became a synonym for the atrabilious type of crusader who seems perpetually to be throwing a tantrum. Sinclair Lewis, one of his early targets, called him "a tedious and egotistical fool . . . a pompous and boresome liar." "What," asked Critic Edmund Wilson, "is Mr. DeVoto's real grievance . . . this continual boiling up about other people's wild statements which stimulates him to even wilder statements...
Died. Lloyd Bacon, 65, Hollywood director of oldtime Mack Sennett two-reelers and of Al Jolson in The Singing Fool, the first major talkie (his latest: The French Line); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Burbank, Calif...
...have given investors only a token stake in the company, and might have held the stock below its true value. The family decided, in the words of a spokesman: "If you go this road, you might as well go the whole road. When you have strings on it, you fool...