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...society as a whole. The lack of emphasis upon the social features of its collegiate branches, in itself appropriate, has had the result of leaving it heterogeneous and disunified. It is to be hoped that this alumni fusion will facilitate important collective contributions to intellectual activity. Certainly thee is no other large body which, conceding the premises upon which American higher education is based, would be so well fitted as the vanguard for the ideas and the initiative which the problems of a complex society demand...
...momentous story beyond its province. How to save its face? The news editor pondered. Horseracing? Cinema? It was impossible to associate Calvin Coolidge with either. Stage? . . . That was it! The editor sent a newshawk scurrying to the office of Sam Harris, producer of the satirical musicomedy Of Thee I Sing. Next day the Telegraph front-paged...
...five minutes of two the cast of Of Thee I Sing . . . was foregathering backstage in normal and unexcited fashion. Five minutes later there was confusion and dismay...
...best laugh lines in Of Thee I Sing concerned Calvin Coolidge. One was the remark of the secretary in the White House who picks up the telephone receiver and announces: 'The Coolidges don't live here any more...
...other costs of his plagiarism suit against Authors George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, et al. He charged that their Pulitzer Prize-winning Of Thee I Sing was drawn from his U.S.A. With Music. Commented Judge Woolsey: "In this case, as is usual in plagiarism cases, obscurity is taking a long shot at success. Having failed to reach his mark, the plaintiff must be made to pay for the expense to which he has put the defendants. ... I am faced with page after page of alleged parallelisms of phraseology. Obviously, the plaintiff cannot claim a copyright on words in the dictionary...