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Cornell University's face was red last week with Communist trouble. Recently Cornell dropped Vladimir D. Kazakevich, longtime Communist and editor of the high-brow Marxist quarterly Science and Society. Kazakevich had been at tacked by the New York World-Telegram's Fred Woltman for hewing to the Communist line in a geography course for Army Specialized Training students. Last week it was noted in the press that Kazakevich's successor, Dr. Joshua Kunitz, was also well known in Communist circles. But Dr. Kunitz was only the latest of many Communist sympathizers who have recently found...
...Sergei Kournakoff, onetime Imperial Russian captain who, the World-Telegram suggested, is the Communist Daily Worker's military expert...
Arpad is the last word in newspaper birds. He cavorts in the New York World-Telegram's weather stories, has become one of the big town's richest chuckles. A happy combination of oaf and genius, he is a blithe and silly little rooster, and the stories in which he appears have a cock eyed quality and an underlying mood of ennui. Samples...
...himself, has whipped up a few more bits of weather information. . . . No thunderstorms tomorrow. Also no sleet, hail, eclipses or earthquakes. First showing of the feature picture at 12:31. . . ." Arpad was born in 1937 (for a few weeks he was called "Eggo - the Vane Bird") when the World-Telegram wanted to dress up Rewriteman H. Allen Smith's wacky weather stories (example: "Workers, arise! This would be a nice day to have off!"). Arpad's pen-&-ink father is 46-year-old Bill Pause (real name: Pause-wang), a greying, soft-spoken staff artist. Where Arpad...
George Jessel helpfully reminded them that even when spelled right their name sounded "too much like crumb, dumb and gum." He suggested that they cabbage the name of his good friend, then the New York World-Telegram's drama critic, Robert Garland. One Gumm sister, aged 11, decided to make a clean sweep. Hoagy Carmichael's Judy was a song she liked just then, so Frances Gumm has been Judy Garland ever since...