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...unit twice stopped drives inside the loyd. line, forced the Giants to settle for field goals. The game's big play came late in the third quarter, with the Giants ahead 9-7: on fourth down with 10 in. to go on the Baltimore 27, Giant Halfback Alex Webster was smeared for a loss...
...Editor Warsley is especially proud of the 2,000 subscribers, such as the Hoosier farmer, who take the magazine because they like to read Latin, not because they have to. He tries to make each issue lively rather than pedantic. The jokes tend to be lame: Primus: "Noah Webster optime Anglice locutus est." Se-cundus: "Ego quoque possem, si meum proprium dictionarium scripsissem."* But the fiction sometimes has its excitement, e.g., a recent story entitled Cadaver Absens (The Missing Corpse). Although many prospective advertisers (books, crayons, even liquor) have expressed interest, Warsley has held to a no-advertising policy...
...Jones: "Noah Webster speaks perfectly in English." Smith: "So could I, if I had written a dictionary." * Brown...
...brick veneered with half a century's grime, looks more like a police station than a newspaper office. The Star's front page, a somber, forbidding block of type only faintly relieved by narrow headlines and a picture or two, has all the eye appeal of Webster's dictionary...
...word that trips lightly from the tongues of connoisseurs and often falls flat in company is the term "genre" (rhymes roughly with honor), a harmless, precise and useful term from the French. Webster defines genre art as that "in which subjects of everyday life are treated realistically." A brilliant exhibition of 37 American genre paintings from 1835 to 1885 is now touring the country under the auspices of the American Federation of Arts. Called "A Hundred Years Ago," it opens next week in New Britain, Conn...