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...recent issue of the Wellesley News Miss Geller described what she and her friends consider the "typical" Harvard man. Coughlin and Holbrook, neither of whom is typical of a Harvard man, will attempt to rebut the Wellesly opinion, and may be given an opportunity for a snide remark or two about the "typical" Wellesley girl...
...appointed juries were on the conservative side, a fact which had led 28 advance-guard abstractionists to boycott the show (TIME, June 5). Possibly to rebut the allegation that they were just old fuddy-duddies, the jurors toppled over backward, chose whole roomfuls of alfalfa-dry, determinedly subjectless and mostly meritless efforts by the Academy of the Left. The leavening in their dull, predictable company was provided by a few comparatively young and little-known painters with a sense of self. Honolulu's Ben Norris translated mountains into a jagged, energetic shorthand that almost soared. Boston's Lawrence...
Counterattack. Early this week, when his chance came at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Candidate Roosevelt did not rebut the rebuttal-he counterattacked. Taking as his text the vulnerable defense record of Republicans in Congress...
Chief contentions in the Government's case which Alcoa set out last week to rebut...
...week's gathering was the proposed elimination of tax-exempt securities. After hearing Chief Counsel John Philip Wenchel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue expound the New Deal doctrine that tax exemption should be ended in order to pump stagnant savings into use, then hearing Banker David Wood rebut with the standard argument that taxing tax-exempts would violate State rights, the assembled investment bankers resolved in favor of eliminating tax exemption on future issues. But this was no New Deal yessing, for banishing of tax exemption would mean a better market for ordinary corporate bond issues...