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Unacknowledged by the Corporation and unknown to himself, Bill Cunningham, Boston's oracular columnist, has become a stern tutor of journalese to two sections of English A students. Immersion in Cunningham's daily articles was prescribed by James a. Walker, instructor in English, who characterized the Boston scribe tersely as "a good mine of irresponsible logical development...
...arch-scribe of Boston journalistic circles did not appear to feel his laurels unduly jeopardized and benignly gave his blessing to his newly acquired if unwilling audience...
When the war broke out, Mamadou Kane became an officer of French Senegalese troops. After the defeat of 1940, he donned his royal robes again. The Germans were impressed. They gave him an office in the Hotel Scribe, winked when the Prince of Zombie became a prince of black marketeers...
...damning of the military and all its works, the endless recitals of battles and who won them. Now I had no beefs, no gripes, no bitches and no regimentation-and I was a lost soul. I tried to strike up a conversation with a civilian correspondent at the Hotel Scribe, and after five minutes of talking politics, I was right back where I started -"Now when we were on the Ruhr. . . ." It was extremely discouraging...
From there on. American Express expects to take care of them. Its smoothly functioning Paris office has already conducted over 200,000 G.I.s on tours of Paris and the French Riviera. The famed office at 11 Rue Scribe (which in prewar years thought nothing of distributing 21,000 letters a day to American tourists) is again operating, though partly occupied by the Army...