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...write on a farm in Maine. From Thurber it was high praise, and it spoke another truth: behind every writer stands a teacher of some kind. Behind E. B. White himself, it turns out, stands the exhortative ghost of a curious and delightful man, the late Professor William Strunk Jr., proprietor of English 8 at Cornell University when White passed through 40 years...
Brief & Bold. Will Strunk wrote a book ("The little book," he liked to say) called The Elements of Style-43 privately printed pages that constituted his magnificent attempt to prune the jungle of English rhetoric and replant it on the head of a pin. Until White recently got hold of one of the Cornell library's two surviving copies, he had not laid eyes on the book in 38 years. Now, thanks to White, the supply has been replenished (Macmillan; $2.50) with a fond testimonial by White: "From every page there peers out at me the puckish face...
...homeowners (57% of all non-farm homes are now owned by the people who live in them), savings and loan men took pains to cash in on the trend by concentrating on the mass market. Says the U.S. Savings and Loan League's Executive Vice President Norman Strunk: "We love the guy who walks in with 50 bucks to start a savings account, because we know that in five years he'll probably have several times that in his account -and in the meantime, the chances are good he may have taken out a loan with...
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