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Lettrism, founded by Isidore Isou, an eccentric Rumanian, is a theory of poetry as "rhythmic architecture." The rapidly growing hordes of Lettrists scorn practically all non-Lettrist poets, and prefer meaningless combinations of letters to dictionary words. Founder Isou was planning last week to hire the Salle Wagram, one of Paris' biggest auditoriums, to denounce his opponents publicly. A typical Lettrist poem looks like a passage from Finnegans Wake translated into Esperanto...
...emergency"; that the governor should decide when an emergency existed. In ordinary times, the Russian insisted, the police should be controlled by the assembly. Messrs. Byrnes and Bevin appreciated these concessions, but they were troubled by the idea of divided police allegiance. Under what conditions could the governor hire & fire the police chief? Mr. Molotov said that the police matter could be settled more quickly if the Anglo-U.S. bargainers would set a time limit for troop withdrawal...
...Accounting Corp. has grossed about $300,000, will net a sizeable chunk of this, since their expenses are small (they have only 60 employes). Last week, Silverman and Hession were in New York to explore the eastern market. Business was so brisk that Hession quipped: "We even had to hire bookkeepers to keep our own books...
Specialists & Smokers. Last week, American University (Washington, D.C.), which has never taken football too seriously, abolished it for good. Said American's President Paul F. Douglass: "Postwar college football has no more relation to education than bullfighting to agriculture. ... I see no reason why one corporation should hire a specialized group of employes to outrun, outbump and outbruise the specialized employes of another corporation. ..." A football player, he concluded flatly, is nothing more than "a human slave" caught in the "biggest black-market operation" in the history of higher education...
However, the Guild does not have resources enough to hire a big-name athlete to run the union, and Murphy does not feel that a head should be elected until such times as the Guild is recognized by the club owners and almost all the players who are going to join have signed...