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Newly elected to the Red Book staff, which will work under the guidance of Frederick P. Murphy '47, are Arthur C. McGill as business manager, Warwick Potter, Jr., as advertising manager, William C. Garcelon as circulation manager, and Jerome Dickinson as publicity manager...
...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...
Love and Twilight. On the McGill campus, he was a legend. To students who hesitated to marry while still in school he would say: "You can afford a few household articles and a can to go to the corner for beer-what more do you need?" He wore battered hats, never seemed to rule his unruly hair. He liked to play billiards, disliked telephones (though his Montreal house was full of them), was always on bad terms with dress ties...
When he quit teaching, he said: "When I was lecturing at McGill on winter afternoons, the gathering of the twilight would give me warning that my time was up, and that I must say, 'Good night, gentlemen.' And now I can see that the sky has darkened and the light has faded from the windows, and I know that the time has come when I must say, 'Good night, gentlemen-forever...