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...James Laughlin is not alone in his quest for the purging of our language. At the end of his selection of the last year's best books, Clifton Fadiman made a plea to young authors that they write with more care towards the use of words. Wilson Follett complained that the definition of a sentence as "a complete thought expressed in words" had become obsolete. The economist, Stuart Chase, in a recent provocative article, urged that the way to make language a better vehicle for ideas was to pursue the science of semantics, which teaches that the two main sins...
...Crimson contingent will be Captain David Emerson '38, winner last year at the Bartlett Carnival and again at the Appalachian Club Race. Peter T. Brooks '38 is the other veteran making the trip. John Pierpont '39, Frederick R. Witherby '40, T. Robert Skinner '38, David S. Stacey '40, James Laughlin, 4th, ocC., and William H. Hinton '41, complete the roster...
...outstanding contribution, I think, is Mr. Laughlin's story, "The River." The backnoyed theme of the Middle-Western boys with the vision of "a better, richer life far, far away" from Springfield, Wisconsin, is handled with maturity of perception and of style. The single incident of the story, where Carson and Craig pick up two girls in Paris, is deftly made the turning point in the action. The sense of drifting is given reality both by an expert use of detail, and by long idiomatic sentences, winding into patterns of thought, half speech, marked by the use of participles...
...Filling out his marriage license when he wed Mary Laughlin of the old Pittsburgh steel family in 1902, crusty, patrician President Robinson listed his occupation as ''gentleman...
Harris Hammond earns $20,000 per year, aside from the income from his inheritance. He is president of Dominguez Oil Fields Co. which earned $2,000,000 last year, and of Laughlin Filter Corp., a small New Jersey company which manufactures centrifuges. In 1928 Mr. Hammond and Philadelphia's Anthony Joseph Drexel ("Tony") Diddle Jr. were among the directors of Acoustic Products Co., which later became Sonora Products Corp. of America. When Sonora went bankrupt and Irving Trust Co. became its receiver, that Manhattan bank charged that Sonora's directors had personally used an option owned...