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Winston Spencer Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer: "The principal difference between Mr. Churchill and a cat, as Mark Twain might say, is that a cat has only nine lives. . . . 'In war you can be killed but once,' he [Mr. Churchill] has said, 'but in politics many times...
...Thomas Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are grown-ups now. Oddly enough, they had been simultaneously moved to write about their boyhoods. Neither improves on Mark Twain's version, but autobiography is always edifying...
...NEGRO IN AMERICAN LIFE- Jerome Dowd-Century ($5). Never shouting, never crusading, Professor Dowd has written perhaps the ablest volume on the Negro question yet published. His own extensive sociological researches he supplements with quotations from many a source, including Mark Twain, the Chicago Commission on Race Relations, Negro poets, psychology professors. First, Professor Dowd explains whence the Negro came, what he does today and how he does it. In the North the Negro is essentially a city dweller, inhabiting segregated districts-Harlem in New York City, the "Black Belt" (old South Side) in Chicago. Since...
...more than anything else to the shock which he experienced when he realized that the story of Franklin entering Philadelphia eating a roll and with another under his arm,--a story told him when a small child and constituting his only knowledge of the statesman--was, as Mark Twain points out, not such a wonderful thing after all. Anyone could have done...
...Gold Coast, in deference to an orchestra of that name and the fact that Arthur's Inc. is a great success, may have noticed that the Ibis tree, so recently brought to America from the Netherplaces by Robert Lampoon, Esquire has, within the last few days, been sawed in twain by some George Washington who needs to be debunked. Nor is the CRIMSON happy to see this happen...