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...firm foundation of mutual plagiarism," he says. "It may be that paragraphs are hard to sell because editors are accustomed to swiping them." Vaughan is proudest of one of his paragraphs that was widely plagiarized and wound up as a footnote to history: "One day I wrote that President Millard Fillmore had lent encouragement to Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, and that out of gratitude Morse had named the characters of the Morse code, dot and dash, after Fillmore's children, Dorothy and Dashiell. That turned up in a national magazine [Coronet] as a perfectly...
Beginning with George Washington, who tarried for a week in 1790 at Mrs. Almy's boardinghouse, 17 U.S. Presidents have taken their ease amid the salt air and rarefied society of Newport, R.I. So upper-crusty was Newport in the old days that, according to local legend. President Millard Fillmore was snubbed not only by the town's residents but by its footmen as well. Last week John Kennedy, enjoying the first real rest of his nine months in office, became Newport's 18th resident President...
...Died. Millard Evelyn ("Glad") Tydings, 70, whose acid tongue, during his 35 years as a Maryland state representative, U.S. Congressman and four-term Senator, made him enemies ranging from Franklin Roosevelt to Joe McCarthy; of pneumonia; on his 550-acre Oakington estate near Havre de Grace, Md. A maverick Democratic Senator who said in 1933 that "If I can't vote my sentiments, to hell with this job," Tydings voted in favor of reciprocal trade and foreign aid, against such domestic New Deal projects as AAA and NRA, which he called "alphabetical monstrosities." Though marked for purge by F.D.R...
...human insanities as patriotism, the brink, and men who take themselves too seriously. High hopes are held for Brecht's Jungle of the Cities, which is opening now. Unfortunately, this is far from the poet's finest work, though New York seems ready for good Brecht. The Wall, by Millard Lampell, is a good reminder of the Nazi atrocities, but it is too reminiscent of Diary of Anne Frank in style and tone. Moreover, the hero is finally convinced of the necessity of resistance by a spirit of mystical heroism, rather than by the wall at his back. It seems...
From Buffalo, the second largest city of the state and the hub of heavily industrialized Erie County, Millard Brown, chief editorial writer of the Evening News, told the CRIMSON yesterday: "There's a pretty substantial Kennedy movement here, and he's pretty popular among suburban Republicans...