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...Author, long a professor of philosophy in a Roman high school, turned to drama late in life after writing many novels and short stories. "Pirandellian" is now Italy's equivalent for "Shavian." He came to wide fame only in 1921, with his play Six Characters in Search of an Author. Critics who deny that Professor Pirandello is a philosopher at least agree that his genius for sardonic humor is considerable. If he only toys with mankind's moral and spiritual absurdities, and makes the stage a debating platform for fruitless metaphysics, he at least does it with terse...
...when he staggers back with dishevelled half and ink stained fingers after the last sheet of copy has dropped into the insatiable basket. During the interviewing period, rumor has it, he spends his time dashing from University Hall, to Soldiers Field, to the H. A. A. in a frantic search for news; assailing famous statesmen in their bedrooms at the Somerset, and actors in their dressing rooms at the Opera House in quest of interviews; writing fervent letters to every acquaintance he and his parents boast; beseaching special articles on anything from birth control to the British Empire. So busy...
...especially during the slippery season. Statistics on the subject are not available; but it is safe to assume that even the laziest student enters the Yard once a day, and that even the most studious of those having rooms there are obliged to go out once a day in search of food. That the mortality is so low is surprising, especially when one considers that many motorists, particularly truck-drivers, appear to regard college students as fair game...
...officer was particularly pleased with the opening cartoon illustrating the Cambridge police habit of being right on the scene of every murder, even if they have to commit it themselves. Turning to the editorials, he was impressed by a search of thought on the part of the Editor, except for the highly decorative letter beginning the page. This the officer took to be a neat allusion to the whaling administered the undergraduates by his colleagues...
...lights went out, the heat went off, the U. S. liner President Harding floundered in the Atlantic Ocean like a toothpick in an inky brook. Passengers groped about their staterooms in search of fur coats; the cooks burned hatch covers and dunnage in their stoves. The President Harding was completely out of oil. No land was in sight. Captain Theodore van Beek assured everyone that Halifax (Nova Scotia) was only 19 miles away, that he had dropped anchor, that tugs were bringing oil. . . . The President Harding finally reached New York Harbor last week, six days behind schedule...