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...Sorbonne at one time or another-is indeed the antithesis of Ring Lardner's celebrated boneheads. A charter member of the Linguistic Society of America, he speaks seven languages-excluding Brooklynese, which he picked up when, fresh from the Princeton campus and trying to hide his Phi Beta Kappa key, he played shortstop for the Dodgers...
Died. William Grigsby McCormick, 90, retired Chicago banker, son of the late William S. McCormick, partner of the giant reaper company; near Wheaton, Ill. When he was a student at the University of Virginia he co-founded Kappa Sigma fraternity, now one of the country's four largest...
...City Editor Robert Morton Lee (now dead) and Managing Editor Edward Scott Beck (now on the shelf). Under them the Tribune staff once included such names as Westbrook Pegler, Percy Hammond, Ring Lardner, Burton Rascoe. Present Managing Editor Pat Maloney, who flew with Rickenbacker and wears a Phi Beta Kappa key from Dartmouth, is a hard worker who got his training under Beck and Lee but lacks their independent thinking...
...Christmas list: six sides from Walt Disney's Dumbo, and eleven Bluebird (Victor's cheaper label) albums. Seven of the eleven albums are the work of Helen Myers, who is the Rodgers & Hart of pint-sized music. Miss Myers, onetime Oklahoma City Junior Leaguer, Phi Beta Kappa, concert and jive pianist (a year at Manhattan's Rainbow Room), composer of moderately successful popular songs, has been with Victor for two years, dreaming up ideas for the children's list. In the current lot are: Long-Name-No-Can-Say (about a Chinese baby with a long...
...chatted with on the lawns at Poughkeepsie. There's Flip, editor of the Vassar Review, who wants to write but isn't sure of her talent. Gary, once the child prodigy poetess, is now a harried girl facing expulsion for having tried to cheat her way into Phi Beta Kappa to fulfill her father's expectations. Jill, who is blonde and beautiful and brainless, wants the bright lights of the stage; Liz serious and restrained, wants the security of a wedding ring and a home. Lee, coldly calculating but warmly amorous, wants above all and at any price to reach...