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...publisher's complex. If anyone differs, the other fellow must be wrong. So he is just another publisher. If he were a couple of feet shorter, he would be like Roy Howard. If he had a couple of million more, he would be like Ogden Reid, and if he had the gout, he would be like [the New York Daily News's Captain Joe] Patterson, and each of them thinks he is a Joseph Pulitzer...
Pure English, Just Refined. I. A. Richards first became hipped on the idea of Basic 22 years ago when he collaborated with its inventor, Charles Kay Ogden, a fellow scholar at the University of Cambridge, on a tortuous book on semantics, called The Meaning of Meaning. Since then he has spent a good deal of time globe-trotting as Basic's chief agitator, wearing the benign smile of a zealot who is content with his life's work. When war broke out, he was at Harvard on a Rockefeller grant as a roving researcher on the problems...
...from Appleton. The prestigious Forum is the pet child of the New York Herald Tribune's tiny, self-assured vice president, Mrs. Ogden Reid. The newspaper business has no comparable public-service venture. It also has no one who quite compares with Mrs. Reid. Eleventh child of an Appleton, Wis. family, she was all set to teach Latin when she left Manhattan's Barnard College, 42 years ago. Instead she took a job in New York as social secretary to Mrs. Whitelaw Reid and proceeded to memorize the Social Register...
...London, where Whitelaw Reid was the U.S. Ambassador, the Reids' efficient secretary met the Reids' carefree son. Ogden and Helen Rogers were married in Appleton. Old Whitelaw Reid had taken over the Tribune after Horace Greeley's death in 1872; Ogden inherited it. Helen Reid stayed away from the Trib until her husband called for help in 1918, when $15 million of the family fortune had been pumped into...
Colonel William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletes, released the news last night following a telephone call from Ogden Miller, Eli's athletic director, which would up two-day-old negotiations...