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Father Henry C. Wallace, a solid, competent editor and a good Secretary of Agriculture (he helped blow the lid off the Teapot Dome scandal), would test the talents of a Boswell. It is Grandfather (Uncle Henry) Wallace who steals the show. First a rebellious Presbyterian minister, later a farmer and outspoken farm-paper editor, Uncle Henry passed on his name but none of his sharp wit and little of his peppery common sense and talent for writing...
...freshness, and also a strength that was not at all boyish. Edouard, painting in oil, spread the pigment in broad, thick strokes that gave a sense of third dimension. For subject matter he used what appealed to his wide eyes: lobsters, a landscape framed in the window, flowers, a teapot, and, lately, his mother...
Died. Colonel Robert Wright Stewart, 80, major in the Rough Riders, onetime board chairman of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, who was ousted by John D. Rockefeller Jr. after his acquittal of charges of contempt and perjury in the Teapot Dome investigation; in Miami Beach...
...regretted, but it is nevertheless a fact. Our committees, which are so democratic that they are open to any and all who care to join, were formed for the purpose of giving voice to the opinion that the whole matter of Student Council reform is a tempest in a teapot, and to express the hope that the business be dropped as soon as possible. There must be more important news for the Crimson to report. Ormonde de Kay, Jr. '45, Committee to Investigate the Committee to Investigate the Student Council. John A. Shepardson '46. Committee to Exterminate the Committee...
...appalling scene sent newsmen scurrying from the wharf to fill luridly indignant columns. For four days the story raged. High Army brass seemed to think it was all a teapot-tempest. "Conditions," they said, "are no worse than the Japs accustomed others to." At Canberra the Government seemed to share this eye-for-an-eye philosophy. Officials turned their faces resolutely away from a blizzard of protesting telegrams, tried vainly to shift the blame to the Jap authorities, MacArthur, the Chinese or anyone else handy. Complained one M.P.: "The Government should have forbidden the press to cover the story...