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...McCarran and old Pat has been glaring right back. Two months ago their feud turned up in court. The Sun sued McCarran and 51 others, including the owners of Las Vegas' leading gambling houses, for $1,000,000. The charge: McCarran had persuaded the local gamblers to yank $8,000 a month in advertising from the paper after the Sun printed attacks against him. The gamblers denied the charge. Last week, in the first round of the court battle, Nevada Federal Judge Roger Foley turned in a decision...
...head porter of Christ Church, Oxford University, bustled up to an American student one day last week to ask a most unusual favor. The porter wanted the Yank's signature in his "Blim [Blighters I've Met] Book"-an honor reserved only for Christ Church students who have made a special mark at Oxford. As everyone at the university knew, 23-year-old Donald Hall of New Haven, Conn, deserved such special attention: he had just won Sir Roger Newdigate's Prize for English Verse-the first American who ever...
Hall was not the only Yank Oxonians were talking about last week. A notice on the university bulletin board announced that Manhattan's F. George Steiner, also 23, had run off with the second top literary honor, the Chancellor's Prize for an English Essay. Indeed, commented the Isis, Oxford had never before felt such an "unmistakable transatlantic influence . . . The American may hustle and bustle like Mr. Babbitt selling his motor cars,* but in Oxford he tries hard, means well, and he gets things done...
This doesn't mean that we advocate that people who have something to say should yank unwilling students out of bed and force them into captive audience as you imply these men did last week. However, we do defend the right of such visitors to knock on our doors and cordially invite us to hear what they have to say. As the occupants of the room in Eliot House where one of these meetings was held, we should like to reassure any of your readers who may have been alarmed by your remarks that we could not detect the least...
...things considered, says Historian Wiley, "the similarities of Billy Yank and Johnny Reb far outweighed their differences . . . [and their] performance in battle, by the admission of professionals sent from Europe to observe [them], compared favorably with that of soldiers anywhere...