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Died. Stephen Butler Leacock, 74, famed Canadian humorist and economist; after a throat operation in Toronto...
...when he retired from McGill University's faculty, Stephen Leacock tentatively thought of returning to his native England, then decided to stay in Canada. Said he: "Fetch me my carpet slippers ... I'll rock it out to sleep right here." Last week, at 74, he died in a Toronto hospital, after an operation for throat cancer. Mourning was not confined to McGill, nor to Canada...
Stephen Butler Leacock had several distinctions : he was one of the very few contemporary Canadians well-known outside of Canada; he was an economist who had a sense of humor; he taught economics and political science at McGill for 33 years; and he pleased readers throughout the world with his 30 books of light, tolerant satire. Among his best-known works: Literary Lapses, Behind the Beyond, Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy...
When British newspapers complained that Canada was being Americanized, Leacock retorted: "If [so], then what England needs is to be Frenchified, and what France needs is to be Anglicized-and both of them to be Germanized. If then one might take the resulting amalgamation and Italianize it a little, and even give it a touch of Czechoslovak shellac rubbed on with a piece of old Russian Soviet, the world would be on the way to peace on earth...
...scholar athlete of yesteryear and a triple threat at that. Another famed Harvard character is "Copey" Professor Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus. Annually he attracts a packed hall to listen to him as he intones familiar and unfamiliar words from the Bible, Kipling, Stephen Leacock, Harvardman, Robert Benchley '12, and many more...