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...Keck was not responsible for the specifics, but he showed "remarkable laxity" in delegating the expenditure of his "personal funds." As for mild Senator Case, who has never quite squared himself with the Senate leadership for calling attention to the whole mess, the committee could muster up only the lamest kind of praise: "The committee does not intend to cast any reflection upon Senator Case...
Died. Dr. Charles Whitney Gilmore, 71, National Museum curator of vertebrate paleontology, who discovered and reconstructed the gigantic prehistoric Diplodocus, one of the lamest-brained creatures on record (70-to-80 ft. long, 15-to-30 tons, apple-sized cranium); after a stroke; in Washington...
...election faced by a House which had undergone a full term of broadcasting. Alarmists who had thought that the microphone would encourage fluent hypocrisy at the expense of floundering soundness were silenced-along with many of the House's most agile speakers. Some of the House's lamest orators were triumphantly reelected. To champions of parliamentary broadcasting, this seemed proof that the New Zealand voter was capable of being educated without being entranced...
...lame ducks" in the "lame duck" session of Congress opening this week, Vice President Curtis is by far the lamest. Congressional districts turned down 144 Representatives and 14 States rejected sitting Senators but the Vice President was crippled by the vote of the entire country. The President-reject was similarly crippled but he at least has the responsibility and power to "run the country" until March 4. With little enough to do before his rejection, a defeated Vice President is a figurehead indeed. Charles Curtis' defeat ("the first popular election I ever lost") kept intact the record that...
...classes are now fully organized. The most important organization, that of the senior class, is as follows: President, Herbert Livingston Satterlee; vice president, Eberhard Lamest Pupke; secretary, Augustus Dickerson Baker; treasurer, George Henry Barnes; historian, Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson. The seniors are trying to determine what sort of an entertainment to give during the winter. The class is about equally divided for a social and a literary entertainment. The outcome of the whole affair will probably be a mixture of the two with not enough of either to make a success...