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...DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS Edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews; University of California; 11 volumes...
Movies about the press inevitably display lots of typewriters on which reporters furiously bang out their stories as if they were using artillery. Such scenes illustrate the idea that the typewriter can be a weapon, which recalls the original patent that the inventor, Christopher Latham Sholes, sold to E. Remington & Sons, a manufacturer of firearms. There is always something heroically decisive about a character's plunking himself down before a typewriter in a movie. The machine itself becomes an instrument of integrity, which may be one of the things we miss when it finally disappears...
...much as the teams. Washington-based Columnist Art Buchwald, who bows to no one in his disdain for the Cowboys, has smoked seven cigars in a single Dallas game and does not remember exhaling. Speaking as a Texan (Spur, Texas; pop. 1,690) living in Washington, Writer Aaron Latham describes the ill feelings he harbors toward the Redskins: "It's a gut reaction. I distrust and dislike Government, and that's what the city is all about...
...There's some new force at work here that we have not yet encountered," said Astronomy lecturer David W. Latham, who cut enrollment in Science A-17 from 180 to 140. "We just can't explain the turnout...
...Wilson, Baird Professor of Science, discouraged sophomores from applying to "Evolutionary Biology;" Latham dropped some students who had not attended the first lectures of "The Astronomical Perspective;" Gould used a lottery; and Thomas J.C. Raymond, Professor of Business Administration, first rejected all freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, and then used a a lottery for seniors in Gen Ed 176, "Business in American Life...