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John R. W. Smail '51, one-time editor of the CRIMSON and recognized founder of "Harvardmanship," has earned a reference in Stephen Potter's new book, "One-Upmanship...
Finally, let not my criticisms keep you from seeing Cry the Beloved Country. It is a good film, for all its flaws, worth ten times its weight in ordinary stuff. John R. W. SMAIL...
...walked out, bepinned with corrugated flag, I could hear the man barking "One. Two. Three." There was a long line of people waiting at his table. JOHN R. W. SMAIL...
...Class Day committee yesterday announced the selection of John Cowles, Jr. of Eliot House and Minneapolis as Class Orator and of John R. W. Smail of Kirkland House and Kent, Conn., as Ivy Orator for the Class Day exercises at 3 p.m. on June 19 in the Sever Quadrangle...
...Smail's review of the Advocate in Tuesday's issue of the CRIMSON. It seems the smug Mr. Smail sees the reviewer Mr. Kaiser as too virtuosic to have much value in his criticism; he challenges Mr. Kaiser's right to use the phrase "the not-so-faint susurrus of hosannahs," which "makes a mockery of the English language." He recommends that Mr. Kaiser get a good dose of Fowler's "Modern English Usage." As it turns out it would seem that Ezra Pound, about whom the review was written, is the one who needs Fowler. (P.S. I am sure...