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Declarations and Bills of Rights are mere curiosities without a government to support them. England's debaters might have seemed to be purely academic were it not that behind all their experimental talk was a recent cluster of ingenious and hopeful .ideas for such a government. Of those ideas U. S. readers could get a fair idea from four recent books...
...modern Kubla Khan, John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1930 a cluster of skyscrapers decreed. Never had such a cluster been decreed before. Between elegant Fifth Avenue and shoddy Sixth in the next nine years, 14 slab-sided tombstones uprose. Last week, wearing a pair of workman's white gloves, Mr. Rockefeller drove a silver rivet into the 14th and final building, to symbolize the completion of his $100,000,000 monument...
With a typical cluster of Alumni 'sour-grapes', Egan concludes that the 1939 Harvard Varsity is the worst in history as "the logical result of Bingham's policy." There have been better Harvard teams, and despite Dave Egan, there WILL be better Harvard teams. But as long as Bill Bingham, and not Dave Egan, rules in the H.A.A., those teams will be non-professional, idealistically amateur...Thank...
After the review Herr Hitler reverently visited Belvedere Palace, where the great Josef Pilsudski lived and died. Back at the airport Hitler proved that what had made him thoughtful had not made him either remorseful or humble-or accurate. "Gentlemen," he said to a cluster of reporters, "you have seen for yourselves what criminal folly it was to try to defend this city in a military way, and how that defense collapsed after only two days. I only wish certain statesmen in other countries who seem to want to turn the whole of Western Europe into such a shambles...
Uncle Don makes some $20,000 a year, at his peak (1928-29) made $75,000. But he would part with plenty to be rid of the persistent but apocryphal tale that one day, when he mistakenly thought he was off the air after a particularly luscious cluster of cliches and commercials, he sighed and said: "There! I guess that'll hold the little bastards...