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...meeting of Scripps-Howard editors in Washington last April, Editor Roy Howard dropped an offhand remark. "In July," said he, "I'll be with the outfit 50 years." After he left the room, somebody spoke up: "We ought to do something about this." They talked to young (35) Board Chairman Charles Scripps, who decided to give Roy a big surprise party. To Roy Howard, when he stepped into the Pavilion Caprice of Cincinnati's Netherland Plaza hotel one night last week, it was indeed a surprise...
...sent it air express to President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a heartfelt token of thanks. Ever since Gussie Busch has been a Democrat ("I'll be damned if I'll bite the hand that fed me"), thus giving some latter-day verisimilitude to Horace Greeley's remark, circa 1860: "I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers were Democrats...
...Street, Apthorp House, which is the Master's House of Adams, and not the least, Shady Hill, where Charles Eliot Norton lived, and after him Professor Paul Saches. One might suggest that much of Harvard's modern eminence was first devised, shaped and plotted at Shady Hill. One may remark that the legendary figures of half a century ago gathered there. Perhaps sentiment is of little value where measured against dollars and cents; I am inclined to disagree...
...Christo," is an example of iron and steel pieces used to decorate the bare walls of Spanish homes. The armor and mustache of the "Christo" unmistakably belong to the cabellero de trista figura. When people remark that No. 14, "Horse Head," looks like Rocinante, Gusils reportedly denies he had Don Quixotc's hack in mind. It seems less likely that he was unaware that he was putting Don Quixote on the cross in this "Christo...
...Churchill was compared with everything, from an endless cavalry charge to Leonardo da Vinci. As everyone tried his best to rise to the occasion-tempted, no doubt, by a wish to be as eloquent as Winston Churchill himself would have been-the London Economist was at last moved to remark that "Sir Winston Churchill is not dead. He has merely retired from the office of Prime Minister . . . The time has fortunately not yet come to write his obituary...