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Like Stephen Leacock's cavalier, the Crimson has mounted its war horse and is rapidly riding off in three directions. Until Friday's issue, the editorial policy was one of consistent, rational non-intervention, free from partisan politics. In sharp contrast with this policy, the Crimson now repudiates the entire Democratic Party by maintaining that "the first essential is to get rid of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, and the entire present administration." And at the same time, it grasps a sputtering torch for Senator Robert A. Taft...
...BRITISH EMPIRE-Stephen Leacock -Dodd, Mead...
Five months on a desert island has been the unique experience of Richard Leacock '43, ex-photographer of the Lack Venables expedition to the Galapagos Islands...
...Galapagos," according to Leacock, "are a miserable group of volcanic islands, covered by scrubby little plants which are so thick and prickly that the interior of the islands is almost impenetrable. The parts of the islands which are not vegetated consist mostly of sunbaked lava, crossed by a network of deep fissures...
...Leacock said that the island he was on is inhabited only by a few Scandinavians and a Dutch dancer. It is completely isolated from civilization, except for the one or two yachts which put in each year. The only animals present are wild boars, huge tortoises, and a few mammoth lizards...