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...freshman meet Bill Diercks (130) of Holworthy pinned Eliot Quill of Grays, and at 137 J. H. Gillette of Matthews shut out Jon Hubbard of Straus 8-0. Bruce Wilcox (145) of Holworthy pinned Peter Keiser of Grays while in the 152 division C.E. Clark of Hollis edged by Bob Beaman of Matthews...
Senators never wholly forget their ancient charge and tradition-there are still snuffboxes at the Senate lobby entrance, sand for blotting letters on every desk, quill pens available on demand. The Senate roster also still retains a collection of first names not to be found in any other body and surpassing even the cast of characters in a 19th century novel-Ross, Birch, Caleb, Gordon, Norris, Hiram, Bourke, Lister, Spessard, Roman, Gale, Thruston, Claiborne, Winston, Leverett, Strom, Harrison. This assemblage is still magisterial in form if not in substance, still flinging its sounding periods into the stillness of the Congressional...
...Puffery. The only labor leader in the U.S. to denounce Mike Quill's New York subway strike as "sabotage" against the public, Swayduck wants to bring labor and public together with Lithopinion, a magazine that he planned himself and now supervises with a small editorial staff. "We hope to help break up stereotyped ideas of what a union is," he wrote in the first issue, which appeared last November. "We believe that union men, and the public interested in labor affairs, are tired of publications in which union officials insult their readers' intelligence with endless pictures of themselves...
...sits bowed above a resplendent manuscript in his solitary scriptorium. On the table before him lie vials of red and blue and purple inks, pots of honey-colored glue, sheets of gold leaf, and reams of creamy antique vellum glowing golden in the candlelight. Only the scratching of a quill interrupts the rich religious silence as the priest pursues his labor of love...
Died. Michael Joseph Quill, 60, the Irishman who laid his shillelagh across New York City's transit system last month; of a coronary occlusion; in Manhattan (see THE NATION...