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...Personals were started in 1932 by Poet Louis Untermeyer, who wanted to sell a pet donkey. He sold the beast so quickly through an S.R.L. ad that other readers began inserting bright ads for old books, jobs and pen pals. Palship sometimes ripened into marriage. Lecturing in Tulsa once, Editor Norman Cousins was joyfully kissed by a young woman who gurgled that she had met her husband through a Saturday Review Personal; he had lived only four blocks away all the time. One woman who asked for male mail and signed herself "Oil Widow," was deluged with 800-odd letters...
Died. Hilary Aidan St. George Saunders, 53, official British war historian; of asthma; in Nassau. Under the pen names of Francis Beeding and David Pilgrim, Saunders collaborated with John Palmer on some 40 thrillers (Eleven Were Brave), but it was his anonymous histories of Britain's role in World War II (The Battle of Britain; Combined Operations) that reached the top of the bestseller lists (more than 12 million copies...
Remote and ineffectual Don That dared attack my Chesterton, With that poor weapon, half-impelled, Unlearnt, unsteady, hardly held, Unworthy for a tilt with men-Your quavering and corroded pen; Don poor at Bed and worse at Table, Don pinched, Don starved, Don miserable; Don stuttering, Don with roving eyes...
...middle of the second reading of the amendment, Bob Cole wandered in and asked what part of the statement was "borrowed from the pen of Grenville Clark." It turned out only one sentence had been--quotation marks were left out because the "synonymous" name "Academic Freedom" had been substituted for "Harvard...
...disturbing to open a bottle labeled "champagne" and find it full of beer instead. And after becoming used to such works as "The Woman of Rome," and "Two Adolescents" from the pen of Alberto Moravia, it is disturbing to read his "The Conformist...