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...insult thousands of highly trained, intelligent Air Force ground crewmen who maintain our B-52s when you suggest that Cassius Clay [Feb. 25] could learn such a skilled job. The only thing he might be able to do is blow up a tire if the air compressor broke down...
...opening Canzona Noni Toni for three brass choirs of Gabrieli added insult to the injury the HRO has already meted out to us Renaissance and Baroque buffs. It is bad enough when, as frequently happens, they don't play anything at all from these periods. But to take this delightful Renaissance canzona and brutally massacre it requires real malevolence. Not only were the choirs not together, but one of the trumpets unceasingly insisted on shlurping every single high note. The HRO's next two concerts include works by Vivaldi and Bach. Let us hope they redeem themselves by handling them...
Most students seem to enjoy the new freedom. "The old system," argues a Yale student, "was an insult to the secondary education system and to the kind of student who gets into Yale." Jean Basehore, studying independently at Allegheny, finds that "now I'm reading more, pushing myself more to satisfy my own curiosity." Colorado College's Faith Hughes contends that "If I dig things out myself, I understand them better...
...public's eye," and he could be just as irritating. His friend Ben Hecht called him "a kind of slum poet and Jack the Ripper rolled into one." To Showman Billy Rose, compliments and catcalls were one and the same. Every knock was a boost, every insult a reminder that at least people were talking about him-as they had from the time he was a boy on Manhattan's Lower East Side until his death last week...
...litigious reader ready to sue a newspaper for libel at the drop of an insult has become a familiar courtroom character. But this time the roles were reversed. The editor was suing one of his readers. And to add to the novelty, the editor won. Bill McGaw, owner, editor, publisher and principal reporter of the Southwesterner claimed that his monthly journal of Western lore had been damaged by the actions of Alamogordo, N. Mex., Furniture Dealer A. A. Webster Jr.. a member of the John Birch Society. And a jury agreed -to the amount...