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Scorpion is now 400 dollars in debt, and the figure is bound to go up when the magazine's now editor brings out his first issue is October. It could conceivably be the last. Guy Franklin Delano Roosevelt Kuttner '67 doesn't care about the money, although the loans are in his name, but he does enjoy caring about his magazine. "Look, I'm a Boy Editor," he'll say, gleefully posing with a telephone receiver. "I'm throwing paper clips at a dinosaur...
...dinosaur is the Harvard Advocate, a tradition-bound and, according to Kuttner, slick monolith that has long cornered the undergraduate writing market while publishing relatively little undergraduate material. The advocate's unsatisfactory state is Scorpion's raison d'etre. But Kuttner, with his staff of six (he gave himself veto power over everything the rest of the staff does, but promised never to use it, "Or else what's the sense of having a staff?") is not out to get the Advocate, only to improve it. "The Advocate needs a pep pill -- that's us. The time is ripe...
...well enough to take over, although it will mean directing Scorpion from Chicago where he will be spending a year off. The first issues had too much social commentary ("you can get that any place") and literary criticism ("it's like hair creme -- greasy and it smells bad") for Kuttner's taste. His will be exclusively prose fiction and poetry...
Robert Egan, the jester who chaffs with Helen and the Countess, affects an implausibly insouciant air, but derives more humor from his quibbling lines than one would have thought modern audiences could appreciate. Guy Kuttner, in another comic role, spatters the stage with grunts and gutteral gibberish as he pretends to be translating some esoteric tongue; for all its lack of subtlety it's a funny...
...graduate school, under Economist John Perry Miller, now offers degrees in 52 fields, including two new Ph.Ds. this year in economic history and industrial administration. Last December, Brewster filled the first endowed chair in Roman Catholic studies in a U.S. secular university by hiring away Catholic University Scholar Stephen Kuttner...