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...dealings with him, he aphorized on the heartaches of friendship: "Let a man come close enough and he'll clutch you like a drowning person, and down you both go." Resenting a Harvard professor's literary criticisms, Hubbard ever after blasted colleges: "A college de gree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it." When his affair with Schoolmistress Alice Moore created a national scandal, he coined and widely promoted an epigram on gossips: "When in doubt, mind your own business." Biographer Balch takes 320 pages to seek (vainly) for the clue to Elbert...
...Justice peered more intently than ever into the use of Federal funds and the status of certain income taxes in Louisiana. Attorney Gen eral Frank Murphy in Washington intimated that he had known for weeks of matters amiss in Baton Rouge. Recently Mr. Murphy accepted an honorary de gree from...
...years its junior. Once considered attractive enough to lure crowds of 15,000 to 20,000, college base-)all now attracts only 3,000 or 4,000 specators to its big games. Why this hoary U. S. sport has been snubbed by undergraduates and alumni, no two college men gree. But baseball experts have not ignored college baseball. In its rosters major-league scouts have found many a man for their clubs' lineups...
Until July 1, 1937 Victor Hall, assistant professor of Physiology at Stanford, gree of bathroom humor, (the W.C. was invented in 1592 by Sir John Harington, a godson of Queen Elizabeth, according to the staff of History 1) it is still in bad odor with arbiters of public taste such as Will Hays. For example, no glimpse was to be had of this delightful piece of furniture in the bathroom scenery of "Swing Time." With some pleasure and no fear this department takes pleasure in offering a copy of its composite picture of allRepublicannomineesforpublicofficeattheNovemberelections to anyone who reports a bona...
...despite the distinguished pedi- gree of bathroom humor, (the W.C. was invented in 1592 by Sir John Harington, a godson of Queen Elizabeth, according to the staff of History 1) it is still in bad odor with arbiters of public taste such as Will Hays. For example, no glimpse was to be had of this delightful piece of furniture in the bathroom scenery of "Swing Time." With some pleasure and no fear this department takes pleasure in offering a copy of its composite picture of allRepublicannomineesforpublicofficeattheNovemberelections to anyone who reports a bona fide instance of this item having appeared...