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...known mock conventions Vandenberg has won 13-at Harvard, Washingtion & Lee, Washington University (St. Louis), Notre Dame, Marquette, Oberlin, Wooster, Case (Cleveland), Centre (Ky.), Kalamazoo, Northern Michigan College of Education, Augustana (Ill.) and Lindenwood (Mo.), Stassen was the choice at University of Pennsylvania, Miami (Ohio) and Russell Sage Dewey won at Hiram (Ohio...
Against the well-intentioned advice of nearly every Kansas GOPolitico, he announced his intention of making his sixth campaign for the Senate. "Young Bill" White, son of Emporia's late sage, was sure he knew why: Alf Landon had put him up to it to bleed votes from Capper's rival in the primary and Landon's archfoe, ex-Governor Andrew Schoeppel. White said so in an Emporia Gazette editorial. In a tearful statement, Capper replied that Young Bill was mistaken; the decision to run was "mine and mine alone...
Among the best pictures in the show was a 17th Century scroll portraying an Indian named Bodhidharma who had brought Buddhism to China's Emperor Wu in the year 527, and left in a huff when Wu wouldn't listen. After the sage had departed, Wu felt rueful and sent a messenger to call him back. The messenger returned with strange news: Bodhidharma had politely declined the invitation, and when last seen was crossing the turbulent Yangtze, borne on a reed...
Absent from the Great Critics sessions was the sage of Baltimore, Critic H. L. Mencken. But over a beer, Mencken peppered the visitors with a shakerful of critical opinions. Sample: "The thing about Theodore Dreiser always was his enormous unintelligence. He reached heights of unintelligence as great as any of the heights of intelligence that Aristotle achieved...
...Sweet Song. The golden egg hatched by sage Mother Goudge is different and much more endearing. Here, the lecherous and predatory decadence of the New World is forgotten in the leafy byways of the Old Country; here, quotations are culled only from the sunny hedgerows of George Meredith, Shakespeare, The Wind in the Willows. World War II-the one which was caused by all the irresponsible behavior described by ardent Father Haydn-is over at last, and Britons are exhausted...