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...Press. He ran the Press like a city room. Instead of waiting for professors to bring him their ponderous research, he went hunting for interesting authors. Once he chased an author across the continent in a plane to get him to write a book. The book. Wah'Kon-Tah, by John Joseph Mathews, was the first from any university press to be chosen a Book-of-the-Month. After he had turned out several best-sellers at Oklahoma, the Princeton University Press nabbed him two years ago. Brandt told Princeton professors how to write readable stuff, last year...
...flashing of black eyes and brown legs, a lively wigwagging of rumps. A comely Negro girl led the terpsichorean rout, rumbaing, impersonating Inca and Martinique maids, flaunting a big cigar in her mouth as a West Indian on an excursion, shimmying in a Florida barrel house, cakewalking as "de Tah Baby" in a ballet on Bre'r Rabbit. This live-wire dancer was Katherine Dunham, young Chicagoan, starting a series of Manhattan recitals with the best Negro dance group yet assembled...
...Shoshone-Bannock Indians in Blackfoot, Ida. conferred tribal citizenship upon Quot-jasonah-ah ("Buffalo Horns" -better known as Clarence A. B^ottolf-sen) and Pah-zy-tse-ze-yak Kap-je-tah ("Heap Big Potato Chief"-better known as Lewis O. Barrows), the Governors of Idaho and Maine...
Died. John Stink (Ho-tah-moie), circa 75, famed Osage Indian recluse; in Pawhuska, Okla. One of the many legends about him: Down with smallpox about 50 years ago, he went into a coma, was thought dead, put out for the vultures. When he revived, his tribesmen treated him as a ghost, ostracized...
...Professor Lloyd James, linguistic adviser to British Broadcasting Corp., recommended that the BBC's radio talkers copy the diction of Franklin D. Roosevelt. "It is disturbing," snorted Professor James, "when a man stands with his back to the 'fah,' and announces that he got some 'tah' on the 'tahs...