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...Song of the Shirt!' "By now he is worked up; he picks up the phone and dials Widener Library. The librarian refers him to the Reference Room. After several minutes, someone comes up with the poet: Thomas Hood. "Thomas Hood! Yes..." says Petric. "It was also made by D.W. Griffith into a tenminute film," he says, and begins to rummage through his papers. After several minutes, he triumphantly tosses a reference in one of his own articles to the 1908 film onto the desk. "'Song of the Shirt,'" he repeats, "an example of the relationship between literature and cinema...
...another excerpt, Nixon trivializes his trip to China by revealing--as you always suspected--that great heads of state meeting at the summit sound more like Floyd the barber and Andy Griffith than men of destiny deciding the course of the world. Nixon, Kissinger, Mao and Chou discuss Mao's health; Mao claims he likes rightists and makes other jokes; all agree that talking is a good thing; Chou looks at his watch. Nixon reveals that Chou was capable of sitting through long meetings in Chinese without falling asleep. These glimpses of power are fascinating, but present a pattern...
...slight quibble with Thomas Griffith's contention in Newswatch [April 14] that the adversary relationship between press and Government lacks a judge: in fact, the reading public judges, shortly after every publication goes to press...
...Thomas Griffith's plea for more civilized behavior among the news media toward politicians may indeed apply to the Eastern Establishment news giants. But for most of us in the rest of the world−outside Washington−the First Amendment battles continue. And our war rages...
...East Regional competition today, Ivy League champion Pennsylvania advanced to the semifinal round with a 92-83 victory over St. Bonaventure. Paced by Larry Williams, with 25 points, and Darrell Griffith, with 21, Louisville beat St. John...