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...Ezra Pound's claims for both Miller and Cancer were most modest. In 1934, when he handed the manuscript to its original Paris publishers, he said: "Here is a dirty book worth reading...
There are those who consider Field's assessment a bit generous. One longtime News staffer (Stuffy wishes he knew who) insisted that his boss was "as profound as a one-pound box of chocolates"; a former city editor has compared working for Walters to "being bitten to death by a duck." Robert M. Hutchins, who went on to become chancellor of the University of Chicago after helping Walters put out a paper for U.S. troops in Italy during World War I, has been even more outspoken. Some years ago Hutchins complained: "What can you expect...
...years, countless artists including T.S. Eliot, John Dos Passos, Exra Pound, and Lawrence Durrell have applauded Miller's artistry and have severely attacked the laws of censorship which have prevented the publication of many of his works in this country. Other better known works of Miller include Troplo of Capricorn, Black Spring. The World of Sex, Sexus, Plexus, and Max and the White Phagooytes...
...million income in oil revenues, its army (larger than the armies of either West Germany or Japan) and its vast police force gobble up $200 million a year, the Development Plan $150 million more. Prices are rising at the alarming clip of 10% yearly, and a pound of meat in Teheran was a staggering $1.15. Wages have not kept pace; the striking teachers on the average earned scarcely $25 a month. Then there is, as always, widespread graft and corruption which Amini frankly called "the curse of Iran...
...nation's leading authority on the law of Trusts, Austin W. Scott, Dane Professor of Law will retire this summer at the age of 76. The man whom Dean Emeritus Roscoe Pound has called "Mr. Harvard Law School" and "one of the four greatest teachers of law I have known" has been on the faculty for more than 50 years...