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...Global Affair. As an obscure U.N. employee who has been nursing a closetful of computers, Bob Hope blinks in dismay at his new assignment: the care and feeding of a blonde baby girl, abandoned in the U.N. lobby. "You've got the wrong man," burbles Bob. "I didn't even go to the Christmas party." Nevertheless he takes the tyke home to his bachelor flat, powders her with confectioners' sugar, fastens her diapers with Scotch tape, and warms her milk in an empty fifth. Meanwhile, back at U Thant's East River headquarters, an international incident...
Edward Prince of Wales grew up to be neither perfect nor anything like the Prince Consort, as Victoria learned to her dismay. But in one sense, argues British Biographer Philip Magnus, he was indeed the perfect man: he-fulfilled Britain's concept of itself as neither Victoria nor Prince Albert had ever done. If he was an anachronism, so was the Britain in which he grew up and ruled. The secret of his easy popularity, thinks Author Magnus, was that he scarcely ever betrayed by word or deed what some of his countrymen dimly suspected: the fact that...
Tall, slim, clean-living Bud Wilkinson has for some time shown signs of political ambition. Both parties vied energetically for his allegiance. Thus it was to vast Democratic dismay and great Republican rejoicing that Wilkinson last February announced his candidacy for the G.O.P. nomination for U.S. Senator...
...letter which appeared in the April 15 issue of the CRIMSON Lloyd I. Rudolph, assistant professor of Government, expresses amusement and dismay at the "self-congratulatory" statement of the Department of Linguistics that with the appointment of six new instructors "the only major area still without a Faculty expert will be African linguistics..." Professor Rudolph further expresses his doubts that in this day and age of developing nations whose languages remain largely unknown to the outside world, scholarship can best be served "by appointments in ancient languages only." I should like to make two brief comments on these statements...
...spite of his breathless baroque style, Barzun adds nothing new to the literature of dismay. As is often the case with prophets of doom, Barzun overlooks the fact that much of what he finds unpleasant today has always existed, and cannot be blamed on Freud, Darwin, science, literacy, or even advertising...