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November 1943-James A. Linen, publisher...
...write an editorial defining the CRIMSON's stand on this gesture of the alumni group. The theme of the editorial was "a plague on both your houses:" Harvard had followed a foolish and niggardly policy, but the alumni should have had better taste than to wash dirty linen in public. Let Harvard pay decent wages, let the too-easily-excited alumni calm down, and let's all forget about the affair. By taking this stand, was the CRIMSON playing a constructive role? I subsequently came to the conclusion that it definitely was not, I think it was a case where...
...first to discover the truth of this conjecture was a Yorkshire linen draper. Shrewd, crude George Hudson, who married the boss's daughter, came into a ?30,000 legacy and swelled it, temporarily, into a railway fortune. In Hudson's heyday, he was able to play with $120 million of Britons' money.† "There he was," said a bitter rival, "crowing like a cock upon his own dunghill...
Cordially, James A. Linen...
...though postwar motorists were gradually becoming horn-blowing neurotics with tendencies toward drinking, cat-kicking and wife-beating, there were few who did not believe that the traffic evil would soon be corrected. This enormous delusion has been a part of U.S. folklore since the day of the linen duster, driving goggles and the high tonneau...