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The Cornell controversy focuses on Robert T. Farrell, dean of writing at Cornell, whom L. Pearce Williams, a Cornell history professor, and Dan Margulis, operations manager of The Cornell Daily Sun, have accused of irresponsible writing style in a letter Farrell wrote to The Sun in September.
The next day, Margulis wrote a letter to The Sun, pointing out grammatical and stylistic errors in Farrell's letter. Margulis yesterday said these errors are proof of the failures of "the war on illiteracy."
"The aides had picked the big middle room for The Office," Margulis said. "The boss gazed out the window a little while and watched a seaplane landing in the harbor. He said he liked the view.
"The aides didn't like that one bit," said Margulis. They told me to get him away from the window and into his bedroom.
They were Hughes' so-called Mormon Mafia, the six gentlemen in waiting who were recruited by Summa Corp. Vizier Bill Gay, himself a Mormon, and attended the anchoritic Croesus day and night, in eight-hour shifts. They were assisted by four physicians on 24-hour call and five lesser...