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Fortnight ago, in one of the first books to be published by one of Britain's service chiefs (Bomber Offensive; Collins, Lon don), the pink-mustached, apoplectic "Bomber" flew back over his career, then scattered some incendiaries closer to home...
Work of the committee, under the direction of Lon L. Fuller, professor of Law, was reported in last Wednesday's issue of the Harvard Law Record...
...Lon Cox, subbing for Rose at stroke, kept the beat low for the whole distance. Princeton held an early edge over the Crimson shell and was ahead for the first quarter mile, only to fall into third place as Cornell's eight bit off a sizeable advantage beyond the Harvard Bridge...
Women's Home Companion. In Lon don, a physician wrote a letter to the Eugenics Review, complained that the reason there were now fewer babies in English homes was because of the "antisocial effects of genuine companionship between husband and wife...
...Happen? In 1865 a Lon don Athenaeum critic was vexed by a new book called Alice in Wonderland - "a stiff, overwrought story," he complained, which would make "any real child more puzzled than enchanted." In 1932, when Alice invaded the Chinese province of Hunan, the sensitive provincial war lord was even more shocked. "Bears, lions, and other beasts cannot use a human language," he barked, and banned Alice as "an insult to the human race." In 1936, an eminent Austrian psychiatrist recoiled, shuddering, before Alice's "oral sadistic traits of cannibalism" and "continuous threat to the integrity...