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Grey Owl's account makes these kittens sound like something out of a Walt Disney cartoon. One always walked erect, "staggering around like a decrepit old man." Another discovered he could ride on his mother's flat tail, would catch a ride whenever Jelly Roll waddled around the camp. Sometimes three kittens would ride, one passenger standing on the tail with one leg and marking time with the other on the floor, like a child scooting along on a Kiddie-Kar. Jelly Roll would pay no attention whatsoever...
...that, for it is too obvious that the writer knows almost nothing about contemporary college life, at least in any Eastern university. His little utopia, by college spirit out of Bryn Mawr, overlooks the fundamental fallacy of its existence, which is that college spirit is too worn out and decrepit to beget more than a weakling doomed to an early death--even with the assistance of Bryn Mawr. It does exist at a football game, and in a certain sentimental aura that clings round the memory of alma matter; but the conception that a university is one happy family...
Last week Michael Francis Tighe, 78, resigned after 17 years as president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers. Relegated to a back seat when John L. Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization took over his decrepit little craft union and set out to make it a great industrial union of all the nation's steelworkers (TIME, June 15 et seq.), reactionary old Mike Tighe offered ill health as reason for his resignation, actually got out before the union's new blood voted...
Little gnome-like Louis Howe had struggled for years with a decrepit constitution. His life was despaired of in March 1935, during an attack of bronchitis. From the White House he was moved to the Naval Hospital where he astounded his doctors by remaining alive. On the night of last week's Gridiron dinner he had gone to sleep and, for no particular reason, his tired heart stopped beating...
...beloved of back-country farmers because he was President in the glorious "time of the fat cows," during "the dance of the millions," (1919-21). when Cuban sugar sold for 22?. Of the millions he grafted then he has almost nothing left; his superb estate has fallen to ruins. Decrepit, distinguished, an old-fashioned leader, he was too weak this time to stump the country...