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Parry, visiting professor of Law, and Ezra Ripley Thayer, teaching fellow of Law, explained that the prospective English lawyer receives a classical education which precludes a knowledge of the practical subjects given so much attention in American law schools...
...Blethen of the Seattle Times, Whitelaw Reid of the New York Herald Tribune). Two are columnists (Stewart Alsop and John Crosby), and one (Richard N. Harris) invented the Toni. "We have a man who is coming to be recognized as the foremost ornithologist of our country [Sidney Dillon Ripley II] . . . We have a famous Fifth Avenue florist [Max Schling Jr.], the entrepreneur of a famous commercial language school [Charles F. Berlitz...
...Osborne are fairly witty stories. Arlen started off with a meaty subject--Adolphe Menjou's resignation from the Ten Best Dressed List. For a few paragraphs Arlen's reminiscences are fine, but, regrettably, he continues with them long after they have lost their interest. Osborne's blast at Ripley's Believe It or Not is a good one-shot idea...
...wager and the inspiration, itself, were worked out before the examination period, and the bettors waited two weeks before beginning the contest. The idea came from a bull session discussion of two Russian yogis who engaged in such a slug-fest 150 years ago, according to Robert Ripley The yogis allegedly had banged away for 72 hours without moving from their original position, the local rendition was performed in several different chairs and postures...
...successful, the Leverett slugfest will reportedly break a world's record established by two Russians and mentioned in a Bobert Ripley column...