Word: oldest
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Reactivated: H. L. Mencken, Baltimore's oldest volcano; by Columnist Earl Wilson, who interviewed him. The volcano showed its age; the new rumblings were as sensationally noisy as the outbursts of the '20s, but now they sounded a lot more hollow: "I'm in favor of war and hope it starts soon. . . . The country enjoys war. . . . [The Japanese] are the only intelligent Orientals. . . . There's not an honest man in China. That reminds me, no American Indian has ever been worth a jolly good God damn, either. . . . [On Harry Truman] That quack! ... [On Harold Stassen] Another...
...Princeton, last week's academic blow-out capped what one guest, the University of California's President Robert Gordon Sproul, called "a whole year of unremitting celebration." The fourth oldest college in the U.S. had honored its past by inviting men from all over the world to discuss the World's future. Throughout the year, hundreds of statesmen and scholars, including Historian Arnold J. Toynbee, Philosopher William E. Hocking, Physicists Karl T. Compton and J. Robert Oppenheimer, Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Biologist J. B. S. Haldane, had come & gone...
...first time in the memory of our oldest 'typesetters (short for teletypesetter operators) conditions in this critical department of TIME are normal. One 'typesetter even describes them as "monotonous." That may be the way it seems to him, but the wonder is that they can meet the weekly barrage of late copy and last minute corrections and still get us to press on time...
...star shot high in the ecclesiastical firmament of Canada last week. In Ottawa, the Apostolic Delegate announced that the Most Rev. Maurice Roy, Bishop of Three Rivers and the youngest Roman Catholic prelate in the Dominion, had been named by the Pope to head the Dominion's oldest diocese, as eleventh Archbishop of Quebec. He will succeed the late Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve...
...Contact With Reality." The greatest of these, and the oldest (53) hand at the game was Adela. The Hearst people had drafted her to give the Overell story the cozy, corny touch she had applied to the Lindbergh and Weyerhaeuser kidnapings, the birth of the Dionne quintuplets, the death of Rudy Valentino. Hearst papers the U.S. over spread her words in big type. Excerpts...