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...popular wayside refreshment house the lampshades are adorned with the names and sentiments of present-day New Englanders. The appelations "Cookie," "Ducky," "Sandra Teetis," "Herman Milankoskywitz" strike the onlooker with a display of colors, varied handwriting, and added hieroglyphics. Beside the carefully letted name of "Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, stands a little message that will cause the historians of the next century to stroke their wisdom teeth in wonderment: "President Conant loves Marlene Dictrich...
...Herman R. Sweet, assistant in Biology, is contesting the $600,000 estate of his father, Mayor Frank R. Sweet of Attieboro, Massachusetts. A stamp collection estimated as ranging in value from $80,000 to $260,000 is one of the issues in the dispute...
...shifting line-up of the New Deal, one of the least permanent jobs in Washington has been the important legal post of Chief of Counsel for the Bureau of Internal Revenue-whose legal policies toward taxes and taxpayers have lately been increasingly stiffened and dominated by onetime Law Professor Herman Oliphant. Clarence Miles Charest, who held it in 1933, moved out to make room for Elijah Barrett Prettyman who moved out to make room for Robert Houghwout Jackson. When Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau's good friend Bob Jackson was elevated to Assistant Attorney General last winter...
Meantime 163,000 junior-college and high-school students were hastily summoned back to classes, but Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, president of the Board of Health, refused to set a date for the younger children's return. Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association sneered: "Panic ... is frequently reflected in the statements and actions of public officials." If the statements and actions of public officials showed that they did not know the difference between education and a circulation stunt, the press was more realistic: cartoonists, columnists and inquiring reporters had a field day with...
Upon the death of Dean Diederichs of the Cornell University College of Engineering, onetime graduate Athletic Manager Romeyn Berry (now editorialist of The New Yorker) wrote the following: I have worked with Herman Diederichs 20 years. Half the time I would have died for him and the other half I wanted to kill him. He did a thousand kindly acts in my behalf and never gave me a kind word anytime. He was a big soft-hearted Dutch sentimentalist who studied to be gruff so people wouldn't find him out. I'm still...