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...report recently issued by a relatively unknown department of Fogg Museum, the following statement lay half buried in the first paragraph. "If it weren't for the 'Friends of Fogg' the museum could not do more than open its doors in the morning and close them at night...
Meanwhile, one of the most vociferous converts to dianetics, Williams College's cause-chasing Professor Frederick L. Schuman, protested in a letter to the New Republic against an unfavorable review of Founder Hubbard's book, Dianetics. Snorted the editors in a one-paragraph reply: "While Dr. Schuman is a distinguished authority on political science, we do not feel that on issues involving psychiatry he is entitled to any more respect than any other layman. His suggestion that no one should write about dianetics without having experienced it seems to us like saying that...
...takes about a year." Worse than the loneliness is the treatment of cable news at home: "[The correspondent] looks for his piece. It should have been on page one. He finds it on page sixteen. It appears rather short. That is because they have simply left out the key paragraph . . . Their editorials make him wonder if they even read his stuff...
...inches to the right of this editorials is the text of a broadcast by William F. Buckley, Jr., chairman of last year's Yale Daily News. It is running in a column usually reserved for proof-reading mistakes, errors in grammar, and news stories missing a last paragraph. It belongs there...
...apologize. The first is the title in which the author has taken the famous old poem concerning Boston "Where the Lowells speak only to Cabots, and the Cabots speak only to God," and substituted Loyolas for Lowells "with more than unsatisfactory results." The second occurs in the last paragraph of the book. It depicts the students and Father Feeney studying "The Doctors, Popes, and Saints of the Church with a longing for the day when a newsboy will be heard running down from Harvard Square, with headlines in his hand and a shout in his voice: 'EXTRA! EXTRA! EXTRA! EXTRA...