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Readers who know the name of James Boswell only by hearsay are likely to consider him an intellectual lackey who simply recorded every scrap of conversation that fell from the nonstop mouth of Samuel Johnson. But he was much more; as Louis Kronenberger points out in his introduction to this handy Portable, Boswell was both a kind of genius and "a tissue of contrarieties." The man who rushed off to a brothel on hearing of his mother's death "was both cocksure and uncertain of himself; painfully self-searching yet comically self-deluded; a Tory in his beliefs...
...secret" of Bert Haines' work with the 150-pounders can be simply put: he is in love with rowing; the Freshman learns quickly through hearsay and demonstration that for him one's rowing is the thing that there are no other criteria. This fact is a big one in crew, where men are jumped from beat to boat daily, and where they row as one, without resentments, or collapse halfway down the course...
...Hearsay Denied...
...TIME'S MARCH 3 STORY ON CHINA . . . NANKING EMBASSY AUTHORITIES WISH TO DENY YOUR WASHINGTON HEARSAY. THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NO BUMBLE OR ERROR BY ANY NANKING EMBASSY CLERK IN TRANSMISSION OF UNRRA DEPUTY DIRECTOR JACKSON'S CABLE ON CHINESE GOVERNMENT'S PLEA FOR MORE COTTON AND CEREALS. IF WASHINGTON HEARD THE CONTRARY, WASHINGTON DIDN'T HEAR RIGHT...
...letting gambling dens and brothels run wide open. Last week, as chairman of the city's Police Commission, he sat in judgment on their appeals. Vancouverites were shaken by the unorthodox McGeer way of running a hearing: he paid no attention to traditional rules of evidence banning hearsay, opinion or conjecture. But they were fascinated by the dirt this method dredged up, particularly from a stocky gambler named Louis Tisman...