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Colgate's gruff old President Cutten sized up President-elect Case last week and decided he would do. Barked Cutten, bringing a characteristic lopsided grin to Ev Case's freckled face: "No one ever heard of a bald-headed fool." Like all past Colgate presidents, Case is a Baptist...
DEATH TURNS THE TABLES-John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). A capital battle of wits between gruff old Dr. Fell and a nimble adversary over who killed the rapscallion fiancé of an English jurist's daughter. Doesn't quite come off, but good reading for those who like the puzzle type of story...
...blue last week came the biggest labor news in six years. Without warning, wearing an unbecoming dovelike look, tough, gruff John L. Lewis clumped out of his lair brandishing a proposal for -of all things-labor peace. In a long, cooing letter to C.I.O. President Philip Murray and A.F. of L. President William Green, labor's black storm cloud proposed an end to the violent feud which has split labor for the last six years, kept labor's house in turmoil. Said Mr. Lewis...
With fellow Professors Billy Phelps and Johnny Berdan (also retired), who are his whist cronies, Keller has long been one of Yale's greatest teachers. In his famed anthropology and S.O.S. (Science of Society) courses, he has taught some 16,000 Yale men. Honest as an old shoe, gruff Dr. Keller shocked his classes with his hard-bitten views on politics, religion, charity, sentimental humanitarianism...
Outside the Times his sole interest was the Washington National Guard, which he made one of the best in the country. Gruff, bombastic, generous to his employes, he was famed for his feuding. Once, in 1926, he engaged the late Colonel William Mitchell in violent debate on the future of airplanes. He said that Mitchell made an ass of himself in declaring that planes would decide the next war, that Mitchell's prophecy that troops would be carried to battle by air was a "howling joke...