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...both shocked and disappointed after having read your article of March 12 on an attempted assault on the Lampoon Building by Hollywood (sic) producer Spires Skouras. With typical inefficiency and disregard for the facts, you have this time gone too far. Not only is the entire story a concoction of one of your more imaginative editors, but even the few details given bare no relation to the truth. My capacity at the Lampoon has nothing whatever to do with the circulation department and I have never laid eyes on Mr. Skouras or any of his associates...
...pugilism, went to the opening night of Wilde's hit play, The Importance of Being Earnest, determined to insult him. Barred from the theater by a forewarned Wilde, he went later to the playwright's club and left a card: "To Oscar Wilde, posing as a somdomite [sic]." Wilde's friends persuaded him to bring charges for criminal libel. In the trial that followed, the marquess was exonerated. Wilde himself was then arrested and put on trial under the Criminal Law Amendment Act. His first trial resulted in a hung jury. At the second, he was found...
...Bishop John Newman, who had finally managed to baptize him three months before, tried to persuade him to take Communion. "I would only be too happy to do so," scribbled U. S. Grant, "if I felt myself fully worthy. I have a feeling in regard to taking the sacriment [sic] that no worse sin can be committed ;han to take it unworthily. I would prefer therefor not to take it, but to have the funeral service performed when I am gone." After reading this note, the bishop said there was no hurry: the general would probably live for quite...
Finally, let us pray that the practice of certain local prep schools is equally abhorrent to the powers-of-change. Before each game, clucking masters herd the schoolboys--all of them--into a long line without the gates. They march to their seats, through the turnstiles, singing a lusty (sic) chorus of the old school song...
Certainly any story appearing in the Advocate's pages might be criticized, but there is no reason why this cannot be done intelligently; no reason why we should not be told wherein and in what way the author is at fault. Mr. Halberstam makes the attempt in his discussion (sic) of the Hoagland story, but he does not try again. Rather, he asserts that the Cumming story cannot structurally stand by itself; and proves his point by mentioning imagery in one of Cumming's sentences (!) He furthermore groups Sean Sweeney's stories with the poetry, says he "plays with words...