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...around for a few minutes to catch his senses and his breath, and then they took him to the stands where his parents and two brothers were waiting for him. He was speechless at first, and his mother was in tears. After a painful silence, he managed to speak. "I've never worked longer or harder," he mumbled. "I'm hungry. I had steak for breakfast, but that seems days...
Other news of graduations last week: ¶ At New York University, imminent rain caused a speechless outdoor commencement. Said Chancellor Harry Woodburn Chase: "I had prepared an eloquent address. There is thunder in the distance. It will be printed and mailed to you." ¶ At the first commencement of Vermont's new Marlboro College (TIME, Sept. 8), there were four commencement speakers and only one graduate. ¶ At Missouri's Rockhurst College (Kansas City), a bus driver and a union business agent received the first U.S. bachelor's degrees in labor relations...
Feet First. Rebecca had not been in London long before she sat at the feet (a vantage point of signal value) of practically everybody worth observing. Her great friend, Novelist G. B. Stern, with whom Rebecca shared meager quarters in those pioneer days, would be struck speechless by the arrival of successive literary lions with whom Miss West would chat, easily and informally, about the private lives and feuds of the legendary characters then dominating the British literary scene...
Counterpoint. Walter S. Tower, slight, sandy-haired president of the American Iron & Steel Institute, was left officially speechless by FTC's assault, declined all comment. His spokesman, however, predicted that most steel customers would rally to the industry's defense because the multiple basing point system, they say, saves them money...
...lively, unrehearsed half-hour. In the Schenectady days, authors & critics often rode up as chatty chums, returned to Manhattan in sullen silence. Fannie Hurst once advised the critics of her Lonely Parade to "go crawl back into the wall, where you came from." Whit Burnett left garrulous Ilka Chase speechless when he told her that her In Bed We Cry was "written from the groin." Rockwell Kent and James T. Farrell began a celebrated feud on the show. Dorothy Thompson ripped into Author Henry Morgenthau Jr. (Germany Is Our Problem) with such vigor and at such length that the moderator...