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Joseph Wechsberg is a bland, dark, persistent man of 38 who started out in life to be a concert violinist. In pursuit of the bluebird of happiness, he has wandered far afield. In addition to fiddling on transatlantic ships and in European cabarets, he has been a professional claqueur in Vienna, a croupier in Nice, a politician's secretary in Prague, a war reporter-photographer in Persia, Ethiopia, China and the South Seas, a malt salesman in Venezuela, a soldier in his native Czechoslovakia, a lecturer on democracy in the U.S. He is currently with the U.S. Army...
...Junior Class of June, 1945, soon to acquire new roommates and white shirts for the final stretch drive, this may be termed the cleavage issue. Interests afield will do their best to break up our "esprit de corps" as the class separates to tasic the delights of living off-campus...
...Today," writes his latest biographer, "there is probably no other English man of letters except Shakespeare whom so many people acknowledge as the chief interest of their lives." Johnson groups flourish as far afield as South Africa. Australia; an American Johnson News Letter appears several times a year; more than 100 books have been published in England and the U.S. alone about the 18th Century's rudest man of learning and letters...
...midst of battle about waiting for TIME to arrive so we could see what the - we were doing was familiar. All I had to do with the Pony Edition was to step out on deck and I was mobbed. . . . Sometimes the copies would reach us as far afield as the Marshall Islands on the very date of issue...
...half an hour over WMEX devoted to Louie, Bix, NORK, as well as moderns such as Hodes, Ed Hall, and Lester Young. And every evening except Sunday Warren Saunders produces "Jump Time" over WCOP at 10 o'clock. The music is apt at times to stray a little afield, but generally speaking pure improvisation predominates. Collectors are invited to come up to the station Tuesday evenings and put on a program featuring their own favorite; any Harvard men interested in participating in this manner are urged to contact the writer for further information. For those of you who are blessed...