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...minute "turn" (in the House) or a ten-minute "folio" (in the Senate) on the floor, then hustles down to the official reporters' office to read his notes into a dictating machine. An unwritten custom for both House and Senate reporters is to clean up little slips of grammar, fact or taste made by the solons. Once a Congressman leaped to his feet in a farm debate, said that the time had come to take the bull by the tail and look the situation squarely in the face. As discreetly as possible, the Record reporter straightened things...
...considered him a cheeky, young know-it-all. Next year he won a year's scholarship at Ruskin College at Oxford, where he sat at the feet of such eminents as G.D.H. Cole, Kenneth Robinson, and Margery Perham, and breathed the heady socialism of Harold Laski's Grammar of Politics. "I still have the greatest feelings for Oxford," Mboya says. "It was a very impressive year." And, he adds, it impressed Europeans back in Kenya. With new confidence, he went to the U.S. for a lecture tour, met Walter Reuther, George Meany and David Dubinsky, and went home...
...Council also cited Jakobson as "an internationally-honored critic of many literatures" and praised his work in history, mythology, music, grammar, and folklore...
...N.A.M.'s new president was born in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1897, emigrated to the U.S. in 1910. Completing grammar school in Holyoke, Mass., Bannow went to work as an apprentice patternmaker in 1911 at 6½? an hour ("I was grossly underpaid"). In 1919 he shipped around the world for a year as a coal stoker on a freighter ("I had to get that phase out of my system"). At 30, he bought Bridgeport Pattern and Model Works with "$80 and a $3,000 loan,'1 changed its name to Bridgeport Machines, Inc., and went to work manufacturing...
...across the cryptic, ordered verses of the haiku before in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums; but since he had read the novel for sex (it was disappointing) their beauty had escaped him. Now, however, he was fascinated with the idea of three line verses which did not require grammar, meter, rhyme, or even logical progression. As Harrison told his roommate after the lecture, "All you gotta remember is that third line that makes the others make sense...