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...following are the other members of the Committee: Henry A. Burgess, Sheridan, Wy.; Arthur Cantor, Mattapan; William C. Coleman, Eccleston, Md.; John L. Donnely, Webster Grove...
There is a saying that a new word added to one's vocabulary is worth $10, so I avidly reached for my Webster's Twentieth Century Unabridged when my eyes lit upon "logorrheic'' on p. 8 of your Nov. 2 issue. I felt cheated when I found nothing between logometric and Logos. Rather than lose $10 worth of culture I am risking 3? to ask you to elucidate...
Logorrheic is an adjective founded upon the Greek roots logos (word) and rhein (to flow). Webster's New International Dictionary lists the noun TIME used adjectivally: "Logorrhea (psychopathological). Excessive and often incoherent talkativeness...
...Miller says he was a timid, colorless bumpkin when he showed up in Chicago for his first newspaper job. Sent to cover police courts, murder trials and hangings, Cub Webster Miller soon learned to talk tough, shortened his first name to Webb "because it made a better by-line." A War correspondent after graduating from the Mexican border troubles, Webb Miller lived through London air raids, saw men die on the Western Front. After the Armistice, as chief of U. P.'s Paris Bureau, Webb Miller watched Poincaré, Clemenceau, Lloyd George and President Wilson knock together the doomed...