Word: latters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...repairman has long since won a special niche in American folklore. Depending on the circumstances, he ranks midway between the riverboat cardsharp and the village idiot, part freebooting buccaneer and part plain boob; or he appears, armed with screwdriver and flashlight, as a latter-day St. George riding heroically against the dragons that infest the nation's drain traps and fuse boxes. In commuter cars, at cocktail parties and women's clubs, he is the center of a game of "Can you top this?"-an endless recital of domestic triumphs and defeats. The plumber who forgets his tools...
...Street. Most of the numbers, recorded at the end of 1956, are replays of records Louis cut between '23 and '34, some of them amplified by the famous, gravelly Armstrong voice. The album is marred by a hackneyed script, read by Satchmo, but it should give latter-day jazz fans, who know him only as the aging vaudevillian, an idea of what the shouting was about...
...been visiting Arthur A. Maass, associate professor of Government, in Maass' apartment in Dunster House. Before he left, Zobel was requested by Maass to garage the latter...
Cornell students have always felt that they should be allowed to solve their own social problems as they arise. This idea is very nice if students can recognize the problems, but the Cornell students have been manifestly unable or unwilling, probably the latter, to recognize them...
Huckleberry Finn is not a Ku Klux Klan pamphlet. To drop this book from the textbook list is a shortsighted educational policy. Surely this acknowledged classic presents life in terms universal enough to out-weigh its incidental provincial slants. Let the latter be considered in historical terms and not taken as a contemporary affront...