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He had what Student Lucius Beebe, who spent a year at Yale, called "a unique ability for translating the obscure refine ments of literature into an idiom which the undergraduate mind could readily grasp." Student Sinclair Lewis, '07, called him the one college teacher of his generation able to...
On Fifth Avenue, men wore what they wanted: house slippers and hunting jack ets, overalls, bathing trunks, mandarin robes. Columnist Lucius Beebe appeared in front of De Pinna's garbed in lilac butler's livery.
Commenting on the Paramoshiri raid, the commander of the U.S. bomber groups in China, Colonel Eugene Beebe, said "They ain't seen nothing yet."
Harold Ross, picket-toothed editor of The New Yorker, read in Exquisite Lucius Beebe's rococo column that he was shy a front tooth. Ross wrote in reply that he had all his front teeth, had a whopping gap between two of them, had refused his dentist's...
A cuff that reaches five inches up the arm was reported by exquisite Lucius Beebe as the latest notion on the proper attire for carving a steak: "Fashioned of gleaming white pique ... the seemingly endless cuff . . . never disappoints its owner by revealing the shirt sleeve proper."