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Posterity will have no written record of the amazing exploits of William Sewall '97 because, as the 60-year-old adventurer explained yesterday, "If you told the story people would think you're a damned liar!" Only the animal heads in the Harvard Club of New York will remain as mute testimony of the hair breadth escapes of the big game hunter...
...again. Minister for Aircraft Production Lord Beaverbrook's Standard, in Shoe Lane just off Fleet Street, was flooded when a tank on its roof burst. Next morning the Standard carried a David Low cartoon showing Goring and Goebbels peddling a newspaper called Der Berlin Liar with headlines: "British Press Wiped Out"-and regarding with pained surprise a Cockney newsboy hawking: "Bomb severely damaged in Shoe Lane...
...there not one who cannot endure it any more, will not endure it any more; did he but cry out for one night in the midst of the untrue, flag-hung city, cry out and not let himself be pacified, who might therefore call him liar...
...Last week in Manhattan Professor Morison, who is not given to understatement, exulted at the rediscovery of the great discoverer's honesty, rejoiced at his victory over those who had tried to prove that Columbus was a "louse, a liar, and good for nothing except getting money out of Ferdinand and Isabella." Vindicated was his theory of history. Vindicated also was his moving account, written before his cruise, of Columbus' triumph at his second voyage...
...theatre and the other in a newspaper office. They earn a minimum salary of $150 a week. (But it's a job in which a couple of lousy breaks might end a career.) They are suspicious characters to the public, which regards them as a kind of licensed liar who cooks up tall tales. Actually, their bread & butter depends on being strictly truthful. The newspapers are their lifeblood, and as Press Agent William Fields once said, "An editor who has been taken in by a press agent never forgets the incident-and shouldn't." A publicity...