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Last weekend at New Haven, the Bulldogs held a significant 5-0 first quarter lead over Princeton before falling 8-6. Paced by attackman Gibbs Lamotte, the Yalies held on until the middle of the second period, after which the Tigers burst the Bulldog bubble and pushed the Yalies all...
After visiting the governor with a city council delegation, enquiring about the Inner Belt, McNamara threw down his personal gauntlet: "If you think the fuss over the toll road led by Mayor Gibbs of Newton is creating a stir, it is but a lawn party compared to what will happen...
Benchley was associated with the New Yorker, and as MacDonald points out, so also were nearly all the good parodists of this century: Peter de Vries, Wolcott Gibbs, Frank Sullivan, and E. B. White. Their victims' language is pleasantly familiar, and for that modern parodies seem the funniest. One probably...
Wolcott Gibbs is a conspicuously less exciting parodist, and some of his work is too crude to observe anything but the most superficial aspects of his subjects; yet he does well enough with J. P. Marquand. "Outside my window the river lay opalescent in the twilight, but for a moment...
The Callahan forces, including Boston labor leaders, have thus vilified Gibbs as a man about to sabotage bread, business, and beauty in Boston. Senate President Powers has threatened to increase Newton's share of the MTA and MDC expense. But old Gibbs has an ace in the hole for the...