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Last week, in most U.S. colleges, spring terms had just begun. Pitt was so crowded that classes had to be held on a day & night shift. At Ohio State, wives of faculty members helped teach. Texas Christian University set up geology labs in a gymnasium...
...Magazine. He also became one of Britain's first Parliamentary reporters. Lazy and arrogant, he soon began composing Honorable Members' speeches entirely out of his own head ? taking cars "that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." When a friend exclaimed that Prime Minister Pitt's latest speech was the best one that he had ever read, Johnson replied: "I wrote [it] in a garret in Exeter Street." Ten years before the birth of Noah Webster, Johnson went to work on his greatest project, his English dictionary...
...promontory among noses it would have earned the admiration of Slawken-Bergius.*. . . It is indeed a very remarkable nose . . . and one which differentiates itself from other remarkable noses. It has not the tremendous hook of Lord Chatham's; it is not aspiring, like the Younger Pitt's, nor wildly ambitious, like Lady Hester Stanhope's, nor grandly aquiline, like the Iron Duke's; but as one studies it there is a temptation to think that it must be prehensile, like an elephant's trunk...
Small Four. George Burns had an early training in antics. Born Nat Birnbaum into a family of twelve children on Manhattan's crowded Pitt Street, he began his theatrical career of necessity at the age of seven, after his father died. George organized the Pee-Wee Quartet, featuring himself and a six-year-old basso. The four took turns passing the hat in saloons and backyards...
...Englishmen believed in the Catholic version of the landmass theory. They even tried to climb onto the Continent by attempting to conquer and rule France in the Hundred Years' War. But ever since Christendom split into Protestant and Catholic wings, Britons have been opposed to European unification. Marlborough, Pitt and Wellington have all fought to keep a balance of power on the European continent, and the small trading nations-The Netherlands, the Scandinavian countries-have usually welcomed British intercession. When madmen like the French Bourbons, Napoleon and Hitler have tried to reconstitute the fabric of a united Europe...