Word: laguardias
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Last night Harvard's Widener-weary population was presented with a rich menu of extra-curricular delicacies. No less than four courses were offered, ranging from LaGuardia soup to John Mason Brown pie. The decision as to which three items to miss was painful indeed, and the very richness of the choice encouraged a resigned withdrawal...
...Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia of New York City will speak at the Indoor Athletic Building at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening...
...liberals hope then to bring forth a really strong GOP 1940 ticket: i.e., Supreme Court Justices Owen Roberts or Harlan Stone to head it; perhaps Oregon's McNary or New York's Dewey as No. 2. Their most audacious dream: for President, McNary; for Vice President, LaGuardia-a ticket they guarantee would convince: 1) Franklin Roosevelt that he is too tired to run again; 2) the U. S. that the GOP is sincerely progressive; 3) the farm and labor vote that they should go Republican...
...believer in repetition, Sculptor Wheelock keeps on experimenting. His lively, engaging pieces range from a plump, belligerent figure of Fiorello LaGuardia to an abstract, pinafored Little Girl, from a bat-swinging Babe Ruth (Sultan of Swat), all curves and planes, to a shiny, swivel-hipped Black Dancer. "When a man stops adventuring," says practical Warren Wheelock, "he stops being an artist...
...Bantam LaGuardia said, "Phooey!" (TIME, March 4). The trouble with the political wise boys in all generations is that they are unable to recognize new issues and the men that fit them. Around 1858 another bantam, Stephen A. Douglas, about the size of Little Flower LaGuardia, looked at Abe Lincoln in Illinois, and he said, "Phooey!" Result: he stood holding Abe Lincoln's hat at the next inauguration. Little Flower is just too close to Buster to see his stature...