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...strong varsity squash team opens its season today against McGill University at Montreal. McGill is always a major contender for the Canadian championship, but because it is not a regular member of the Eastern Intercollegiate Squash League, it is usually an unknown quantity to American teams...
...himself a member of the group of Tennessee poets, will illustrate his remarks with recordings of Allan Tate, John Crowe Ransom, and others reading and discussing their work at a recent reunion of Vanderbuilt University. Among future speakers in the Forum series will be Robert Penn Warren and Ralph McGill, editor of the Atlanta Constitution...
...corny to be really dirty, McGill's cards played for the broad belly laugh rather than the snide snigger, and in so doing gave expression to a peculiarly British brand of humor. His very first success, which might draw a wondering shrug or an embarrassed titter outside Britain, but hardly a howl, showed a chambermaid peeping through the bathroom keyhole and saying, "He won't be long now, sir, he is drying himself...
...tradition of the Miller's Tale than of the music hall, the kind that called for an elbow in the ribs and a broad wink. He: "Do you like Kipling?" She: "I don't know, you naughty boy, I've never kippled." The double-entendre gave McGill his most successful card, good for a staggering 6,000,000 copies, but now out of print. A shriveled shrimp of a man with a huge mustache, naked but for a small towel, stands before a doctor, who tells him: "Sorry, but we will have to take...
...gentle, proper man who favored bow ties and bowlers and was often taken for a solicitor, McGill said of himself: "I am really rather Victorian in my outlook." And so he was. To Author Stephen Potter (Gamesmanship], McGill's cards brought back "memories of bathing tents and sand in gym shoes and tea at a beach café." To the late George Orwell, they meant something vastly different: a splashy, tintype, but nonetheless authentic expression of ''the Sancho Panza view of life." Like Don Quixote's earthy squire, McGill "punctures your fine attitudes and urges...