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When Henry went over to Wilfred Funk, Joe Lippincott hired young, capable George Stevens, onetime editor of the Saturday Review of Literature. Last January he bought control of young but promising Carrick & Evans, made young but promising Lynn Carrick a director of the company. Always strong in the field of textbooks, medical books, other specialized works, Lippincott found its general trade list bolstered by Carrick & Evans' Frank Hough, John Chamberlain, Princess Paul Sapieha, David Loth...
...WINSTON CHURCHILL'S PRIVATE SECRETARY-Phyllis Moir-Wilfred Funk...
...semi-humorists of Lampy come out of the funk and accept the gauntlet, the game will be played "on a neutral board" sometime next week, according to George R. Clay '43, temporary chairman of the Harvard CRIMSON Athletic Association...
...some of them that old John Metaxas was dead (see p. 29). "Put us back in the ambulances," they said. "Send us back to the front." The Italians entirely miscalculated the effect of the Premier's death on Greek morale. Thinking the Greeks would go into a funk, they launched the heaviest counter-attacks of the whole war. They threaded tanks into the valleys, sent flame throwers onto the heights, and with steadier German hands to guide them, set strafing planes to hedgehop at risky low levels, to dive on causeways, bridges, gun emplacements. For the first time...
Poet T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot attacked the Church in wasteland accents for letting Christian principle vanish from education. Sir Richard Acland was fiercer: "For over 150 years you have neglected your duty . . . because of sheer funk. . The whole structure of society ... is, from the Christian point of view, rotten and must permanently frustrate your efforts to create for the individual the possibility of a Christian life. . . . This has given Hitler the opportunity for saying 'To hell with the whole order.' He said this, and from despairing humanity he wrung forth a tremendous and dynamic response. ... In order...