Word: procession
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he graduates, he will be intelligent, well-rounded, and sociable. Whether he will also have lost his individuality in the process is the final question to be answered in determining the relative merits of a Princeton and a Harvard education
Some of the individual skits are very well done. W. C. Fields manages to wreak vengeance on road-bogs at large for the wrecking of his hard-earned flivver by a member of their clan. He manages to destroy five cars in the process, and to do so amusingly, George Raft, a forger, cannot cash his million-dollar check since the police are after him and no bank will take a draught with his writing on it. Gary Cooper and Jack Oakie lose theirs because they like to sock sergeants (they are in the Marines...
...best way to prevent cancer, Hueper believes, is to cut out, or at least cut down, the conditions of contact; better yet, use harmless materials instead of those with cancer-producing properties. Some industries have already made a beginning, he noted, but the process could be stepped up by spreading the word on environmental causes of cancer through industrial management and "health agencies, including the medical profession...
Last month, a ham in Memphis got suspicious and reported station W5BNK to the Federal Communications Commission. With its long-range direction finders in Washington, FCC tracked down Moody's transmitters to a loo-mile area. In the process, two other unlicensed operators were caught. Finally, after three weeks, busy FCC field crews pinpointed station W5BNK at the Parchman prison farm...
...tight bun. His Notebook (the whittlings-down of "fifteen stoutish volumes") contains mostly workaday jottings from 1892 (when he had just started to write) to 1949 (when he suggests that he is just about to stop). "I publish it," he explains, "because I am interested in the ... process of creation ... By some happy chance what interests me seems to interest a great many other people...