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That is what William Bentinck-Smith '37 has done in the Harvard Book. The first book of its type, it is a skillful job of selection from the treasury of Harvard ore. Bentinck-Smith's official University title is Honorary Curator of Type Specimens and Letter design in the Department...
The Tell Tale Heart (U.P.A.) is a seven-minute tour of a madman's mind. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's chilling short story, powerfully narrated in a voice just this side of frenzy by Actor James Mason, the film is one of the first attempts to use...
If "tickling" is an art ... in which fish are taken without tackle by skillful manipulation of the hand, then TIME has its gills in the net of mixed metaphors.
Years after Appomattox. a simple, honest and superlatively skillful horse soldier, General Nathan Bedford ("Get thar fustest") Forrest, attended a meeting of Confederate veterans. He listened to typical Southern oratory (Calhoun's principles and Scott's language) on the Lost Cause. Hardly a word was said about slavery...
Cardano also knew something about kibitzers. "You can scarcely avoid folly if they are against you," he noted. Hence, "it is of the very greatest advantage to you to have your own supporters if you wish to win unjustly; and to play otherwise in the presence of a crowd is...