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...England Cannot Win." At the Lindbergh rally was Lawrence Dennis, No. 1 intellectual Fascist in the U.S. Novelist Kathleen Norris, Oldster Jafsie Condon, go-between in the Lindbergh kidnapping case, huge, lumbering Senator David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts, and Journalist John T. Flynn, foe of the New Deal and intervention, sat on the platform. There also sat Anne Lindbergh, author of "The Wave of the Future." "Phooey on England!" screamed a woman in the crowd dominated by New York Irish and other anti-British partisans...
...oldsters who fought the Independents' first battles still slay long-dead dragons with all their old zest. As a prelude to this year's Silver Jubilee, a group of oldtimers, with some 300 friends and admirers, crowded the Independents' old hangout: Petitpas, a venerable Bohemian French restaurant on Manhattan's lower West Side. Their guest of honor was a small, garrulous, bespectacled oldster who had risen from a sickbed to be there. For 24 of its 25 years he had been the Society's president. His name was a famous one in U.S. art: John...
...they expected to see a doddering oldster, they were surprised. Old Steve Dutton is built like the village smith, bullnecked, his nearly-six-foot frame wrapped with 180 Ib. of muscle as tough as a lion-tamer's boot. He has never worn glasses. His hearing is acute. Neat in a black suit and powder-blue topcoat, clean shaven and impatient, he stomped out under the bright lights, roaring in a deep black bass. He raged at being held without bail, bawled out a stripling cop who dared touch his shoulder...
Have U. S. schools been corrupted by newfangled ideas? Yes, cries many a tough-minded oldster. No, snorted the No. 1 U. S. school efficiency expert last week -they are not even up to date. The expert, trim, white-haired Professor Paul R. Mort of Columbia University's Teachers College, after a three-year study of 344 schools, reported his findings in American Schools in Transition (Bureau of Publica tions, Teachers College...
Munro Leaf dashed off his fabulous The Story of Ferdinand in 40 minutes, with no more propagandist purpose than an oldster reading funny papers to his grandchildren...