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Phillips (whose real name is Arthur Osborne Phillips) finally got a diploma from the University of Tennessee medical college in 1930 by posing as the James Herman Phillips (no relation) who graduated from that school in 1916. Impostor Phillips had served as orderly to the real Dr. James H. Phillips in the Army Medical Corps in World War I. He picked up more medical lore and tricks of surgery in prison hospitals. He made one modest attempt to come up the hard way: a brief internship (1930) in a West Virginia hospital, from which he was dismissed for "unprofessional conduct...
Then Missouri's obstreperous Dewey Short stood up in the House, flailed his long arms, popped off in his best alliterative style: "Wee Windy War Willkie. . . . Oh, this bellowing, blatant, bellicose, belligerent, bombastic blowhard. . . . God forgive me for ever having supported such an impostor. ... I really would like to take the gloves off and sail into Mr. Willkie as he deserves...
...that when he resigned he was the sole surviving Communist at the college. To the witness stand then marched a spectacled City College instructor named William Martin Canning, who barked: "Schappes undoubtedly has forgotten." Mr. Canning spent two full days refreshing Mr. Schappes's memory. (Retorted Schappes: "An impostor!") Testifying that he himself had been a member of the Communist unit for two years, Canning named 50 fellow members, among them the college registrar, John Kenneth Ackley, known in the party as Jake. About one-half of one per cent of the 30,000 students and four per cent...
...were just trying to be funny, and personally I think Leila Ernst is almost sure of making a big hit in Hollywood," Hobbs declared when pressed by the impostor for an apology, adding that he "wanted the whole mess kept in strict confidence between you and the Lampoon...
...impostor, in addition to worming an apology for the treatment accorded to Leila, also managed to get Hobbs to admit that most Lampoon stunts in the past 10 years have been "senseless" and not worth while. Specifically condemned was the stealing of the Sacred Cod from the State House...