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...begins the first two volumes of a projected eight-volume set of Theodore Roosevelt's own lengthy letters. Before long, the reader is apt to wonder if the ebullient T.R. was not born with a pen grasped firmly in hand. Certainly, few men in or out of public life have slapped down so many words on so many subjects. Upwards of 1,900 letters and telegrams are contained in these first two volumes alone, but by a conservative estimate they are only about 1 % of the number he wrote in his lifetime. And during the period...
Roger Swanson, John Tangen, Lew Cowan, Dick Upjohn, Al Cohn, Tom Hoya, and Pen White won their matches for the Deacons. Eliot, Kirkland, and Lowell are now tied for first place in the league...
Under the pen name "Tet Toe," which means "Progress," Newsman Pe has translated many Western classics for Burmese readers. Among them : Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Ludwig's Napoleon and several De Maupassant short stories. One less classical On Pe translation: Dale Carnegie's How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. With his new novel he plans to reverse the process by translating it into English for British and American readers...
...first few hours, all the Administration could do in rebuttal was to produce the lame statement-put out by the Pen tagon-that the President, in relieving MacArthur, had acted on the "unanimous recommendations" of his civilian and military advisers, including the Joint Chiefs, a denial which did not meet what MacArthur had charged...
...worst of the lot is a drawing by James Montgomery Flagg showing a jester jabbing his pen into the rear end of an evil-looking person labeled "Hypocrisy." The caption is, "1951--Lampy--Still doing his stuff." If Mr. Flagg is seriously implying that the Lampoon is a puncturer of the balloons of insincerity and inconsistency which clutter up the atmosphere of society, then he should examine more closely the recent copies of the magazine...