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...there was nothing comic about his mind. A preacher's son, nephew of U.S. Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith, John Rice grew up in a family of South Carolina individualists and became one himself, a rebel among rebels. He was a star pupil at Tennessee's famed Webb School, breezed through Tulane in three years, went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Then he turned itinerant pedagogue (successively at Webb School, the University of Chicago, Nebraska, New Jersey College for Women, Rollins, Black Mountain...
Fish Story. In Plainview, Tex., Fisherman J. H. Webb told how he caught a bass, was doubtful about its length, tossed in his line again, pulled out a folding ruler...
...Ralph W. Barnes, New York Herald Tribune; Don Bell, NBC; Mrs. Lea Burdette, PM; Melville Jacoby, TIME; Ben Miller, Baltimore Sun; Webb Miller and Harry Percy, U.P.; Eugene Petrov, N.A.N.A...
...that the Axis must become "the liberator" of natives oppressed by reactionary plutocrats. Arguments over British policy meant a split in United Nations ranks. A special "Handbook on India" was rushed to the printers. A dozen newspapers reprinted a graphic account of a British lathee charge from the late Webb Miller's book: I Found No Peace...
...hold-up murder of 52-year-old Susan Flora Reich in Manhattan, self-dramatizing Madeline Webb went to prison for life, self-dramatizing Eli Shonbrun, impassive John Cullen went to Sing Sing to await death in the chair...