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...lobby of the Manchester Guardian's smoke-grimed Victorian building, a bust by Jacob Epstein glares down on the editorial floor, where a few stubborn oldsters still scribble in longhand amid the clacking typewriters of fresh-faced Oxonians. It is the image of Charles Prestwich Scott, the Guardian's late, greatest editor, who built a provincial Whig organ into English liberalism's bravest voice...
...Last Laugh. In Worthington, Ind., Jacob Bailey walked into a restaurant, jokingly ordered a steak, got it, fell dead...
...Class of 1945: Emanuel Jacob Abrams, John Barnes 3d, Roger Joseph Donahue, John Lowell Gardner, William James McAuliffe Jr., Manton Bradley Metcalf 3d, James Greenbury Nuland, George Spires Pappagianis, Harold Warren Schnaper, Sundel Lazarus Shir, Walter James Whelan, William Harold Wolf...
...Class of 1938, Cum Laude: Jacob Horowitz, (General Studies...
Most of the angels were shabby, tired and obviously unhappy-a sort of bespattered mudguard of the lower middle class. Their beliefs were probably best expressed by Joseph Jacob Greutmann, 57-year-old pastry cook, onetime hypnotist, who founded the first Swiss heaven. Says Greutmann...