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...mention this simply because Gosse's edition was so full of blunders and we were so diverted by them that I finally asked Kittredge to contribute a profactory article to my edition on "Gray's knowledge of Norse," and sign it with his initials. A look of delight came over his face. "Then I can be as pedantic as possible!" he said. The result of his cooperation was that when the British scholar, Tovey, prepared his edition of Gray, he said in his preface his edition of Gray, he said in his preface "he had found great help...
These casual reminiscences illustrate only a few of Mr. Kittredge's characteristic traits. I have given no account of his life in his family circle, in which he took the greatest delight, especially at Barnstable on the Cape, where his children and grandchildren all lived close at hand. I have also omitted all discussions of the qualities of his scholarship. But what I have said may make him better understood by those who know him only at a distance...
Fighting on the same side again, Britain and Russia were delighted to have Iran, and with so little trouble. But there was one party to the taking who could not have shared their delight, and that was Iran's 65-year-old Shah in Shah ("King of Kings...
Good reason had CBS to rub its corporate hands with delight last week as it watched its correspondent William Lawrence Shirer's Berlin Diary nudging up to a sale of 400,000 copies. Keeping a baby spot trained on its former Berlin man, CBS since last July has had him covering home plate in its nightly European news roundups, named him last week to substitute for vacationing Commentator Elmer Davis. Meanwhile, plans were going ahead to feature him a fortnight hence on a Sunday-evening show (5:456 E.D.S.T.) called William Shirer and the News. After three weeks...
...such widely known news makes the press almost as big a monkey as Secretary Knox, the biggest monkey of all is made of the general public that is supposed to be kept in ignorance even of things which Hitler must know. But apparently U.S. officials take a childish delight in having a "secret...