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...paradox that endlessly puzzles the President. He has persuaded Congress to pass a mind-numbing total of bills promoting causes dear to intellectuals. He has assiduously courted the cerebral community and has shown almost childlike gratitude when it responds to his wooing-as when he gave Merrick a souvenir pen and thanked him for his rebuke to Miller. But for all that, much of the intellectual world still regards him with hostility and even scorn...
...explained, "I printed in manuscript, and illustrated with my own crude designs, this little book." "This little book," entitled Alice's Adventures under Ground, was the first draft of a later and longer story entitled Alice's Adventures in Wonderland which was published by Dodgson under the pen name Lewis Carroll. Alice addicts have long known of the original transcript and now, thanks to the progress of photocopying, they can own an elegant but inexpensive facsimile...
...Dodgson drawings, though worlds away from the expert expressiveness of the famous illustrations by Tenniel, have a charm all their own. They summon an image of dear Dodgson as he sat back, pen in hand and collar askew, to beam at this lucky squiggle or that eager splodge and imagine how Alice would soon stare at it with huge believing eyes. The later Alice is a work of literature; the earlier a work of love...
...There is something pathetically juvenile in the President's having to distribute souvenir pens to grown men after signing a bill [Aug. 20]. The pen he gives out has no meaning; it reminds one of a birthday party at which each small child has to "get something" to avoid hurt feelings...
...calls her "Acidy Cassidy." Director Tyrone Guthrie finds her "vicious and irresponsible." Contralto Marie Powers once threatened to clout her in the snoot, and had to be restrained from doing so. The object of these strong sentiments is the Chicago Tribune's deceptively frail Claudia Cassidy, whose barbed pen has made her the most widely read and feared critic of the lively arts in the Midwest. She has written finish to many a career in Chicago, notably those of two local conductors who left after continual Cassidy pannings...