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...admit she likes the play, which has qualities that even the most prudent might admire; she observes pontifically, "It is probably the only play of the past few years written by an undergraduate that has received any serious attention." That's safe enough all right, even if the grammar isn't the best. When she throws over her whole magazine to one writer, it represents quite a sacrifice, and she ought to be proud. She seems more concerned about her honor, however, and I guess we all know what happened to that, long...
...junior year to see if he needs extra work. Passing a second test would become a part of the law school's regular requirements for admission. "It is perhaps too much to hope that by this measure the apparently moribund study of English grammar will be revitalized in secondary schools. We can at least expect that the literature of the law will eventually be the better for.it...
...stand on and make a speech." With a lisp caused by two widely separated front teeth, Billy Knowland would get up on his box and proclaim: "Wepwethentative government ith the way we do thingth in thith country." The inscription on his grammar-school graduation program read: "Appearance-politician. Besetting sin-politics." At twelve he spoke for the Harding-Coolidge ticket. He thrilled to the drama of his first national convention in 1924, returned to take over the chairmanship, from an adult who had fallen ill, of the finance committee of Alameda's Coolidge-Dawes Republican Club. Billy raised funds...
Died. Sevellon Brown, 70, grammar-school-educated longtime editor (1920-53) and publisher (1942-54) of the lofty-minded Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin, and founder (1946) of Columbia University's American Press Institute; of a stroke; in Tucson, Ariz. Newsman Brown, who took over from an editor (John Revelstoke Rathom) who followed the "raise hell and sell newspapers" tradition, raised the Journal-Bulletin's moral sights instead, still sold a lot of papers (1956 combined circulation: 201,789). A journalistic puritan under whose guidance the Providence Journal Co. once kept a rival paper afloat for several months...
This was the first joke ever told by Fred Allen, in a grammar-school revue. Over the next 50 years, a lot of his humor did not rise much above this level, but his nasally astringent tones and the cold poached eyes with which he regarded life were to be widely hailed as the attributes of a pungent social satirist. He was both more and less than that; in his best years, he was one of the funniest comedians in the U.S.; in lesser, later years he was an embittered heckler of most post-Allen entertainment...