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...accustomed to seeing this column start out with "Dear Tula", for that is the regular writer's one and only thought these days. In fact, Melvin Parnell, "Flotsam and Jetsam" originator and penman, has done such a good job of writing these letters to Tula that things have begin to happen fast and furiously. Tula is no longer in far away Chicago, but right here in Cambridge...
...Napoleonic penman was Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, the hero of Fort Sumter, whom President Jefferson Davis first entrusted with the defense of Richmond. "Old Bory" had a bloodhound's eye and a theatrical, martial look. Taking command at Manassas Junction, he showed a pardonable confidence in the fighting spirit of his troops, the first and fiercest volunteers. His notions of their tactical capacity-communicated in eloquent notes to Richmond-were purely visionary...
...land slowly and not burn up." In a publication ostensibly technical, aerophobic Editor Grey devoted whopping columns to his pet political peeves and peevish political pets. He was shrilly pro-Nazi, anti-French, abominated U. S.-made planes, roundly clapperclawed the British Air Ministry for buying them. A colorful penman with spectacular contempt for fact ("What's the good of that when you can invent your facts as you go along?"), führious Editor Grey perennially brewed bumpy weather in European air politics...
With that limitation in mind, the quest becomes distinctly discouraging. The names one hears most frequently are Nen Mexico's Circuit Judge Sam Bratton California's Circuit Judge William Penman. Senator Louis B. Schwellenbach of Washington, and then, a little farther to the East, former Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan. There is nothing particularly against Mr. Bratton, who has served in Congress, in addition to his judicial experience. Politically perhaps his appointment would not be the expedient for the President, for New Mexico is rarely a crucial state, with its three electoral votes. Denman is a weak judge...
...penman, becoming uneasy, then turned and raced out of the Bank to be followed by Geoffrey W. Lewis '32, assistant Dean of the College, who was near the door at the time, Sayward and Lewis lost the fleeing check passer in the Square traffic, but it was later learned that he had raced into the Yard by Lehman Hall and disappeared into Matthews Hall and been lost coming out the other side...