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Died. Friedrich Bergius, 64, German-born scientist who won the 1931 Nobel Prize for chemistry (for converting coal into gasoline), an expert on ersatz foodstuffs which were later used by the Nazi war machine (he succeeded in making sugar out of sawdust); of a heart attack; in Buenos Aires...
...Lucifer with a Book" is not merely an accurate dissection of a specific school; it is a challenge to the teachers of America. "Was it perhaps that all these people who called themselves custodians of education were merely spineless dolls with the guts of sawdust, living in pretense because they refused to accept life as it was? Was it that those who called themselves teachers were merely playing politics on an enclosed checkerboard and parroting the thoughts of the Dead Great because it gave them a vicarious importance and authority? Did America perhaps justly laugh at her teachers and humiliate...
Late last night, all that was left at Row and Mt. Auburn sts. were plies of sawdust all over the pavement and a few forlorn "State of Lampoon" parking signs
...official proceedings, broadcast over the 'Poon's public address system, were somewhat marred by rival CRIMSON loudspeakers established in adjoining Adams and Lowell rooms. Later, after the members of the newly-formed "State of Lampoon" had retired behind their barbed wire and sawdust sack fortifications, these barricades were breached by a determined charge, which reached the front door of the building and obtained half of the "State of Lampoon" banner before the cessation of hostilities...
...sawdust sacks which formed part of the Lampy defenses were broken open as the barricades were demolished by the first of several charges, and spectators and combatants became covered...