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Cartoonist Al (Li'l Abner) Capp started it by reviewing Albert Rapp's The Origins of Wit and Humor for the New York Times Book Review. Author Rapp, professor of classical languages at the University of Tennessee, is no credit to the joke business, wrote Capp: "He has a way with a joke, like Use Koch had with a tattoo. He skins 'em alive." Last week the Times let writer and reviewer scrap it out in Dogpatch style. Capp, wrote Professor Rapp, "has obviously not heard of the psychological experiments...
...York state and city officials have for some time worried about the presence of Communists in New York schools and colleges. The Rapp-Coudert committee of the State Legislature gained headlines a few years ago when it conducted a controversial investigation of various "subverstive" teachers in the Empire State. And since 1934 virtually all teachers in public and private institutions have been compelled by State law to swear allegiance to the Federal and New York constitutions...
Dave Carter and Bill Geick will compete in the broad jump, facing defending champions Win Scott and Bill Rapp of Army. Geick and Dick Barwise are in the high jump, and Dave Best will carry Crimson hopes against a mediocre field in the pole vault...
Broad jump--Dave Carter can make a 22-foot jump, but has good men against him (Army's Scott and Rapp go well over 23 feet). Bill Geick did 21 feet 8 inches last year in the Harvard-Yale-Oxford-Cambridge meet...
...Avenue Rapp warehouse to await the claim of their rightful owners. But now no one seemed to want them...