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...Newspaper Editors, thus becoming a more or less official spokesman for U. S. journalism. Last week, on his way home, Bill White showed that this new honor had not changed his old habit. Addressing the students at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance & Commerce, the Sage of Emporia blurted...
...find one, mainly because Chinese lords mistrusted his honesty, once because he refused to play up to a smart mistress behind the throne. Typical of the topical way Confucius coined his maxims was the crack he delivered on this occasion. "I have never known anyone," declared the sage, "who will work so hard on behalf of virtue as for a beautiful face...
...writer had turned out 33 books, with a total sale of about 10,000,000 copies. After thoughtfully picking them to little bits, Professor Whipple concluded that their enormous popularity did not constitute a serious reflection on U. S. taste. Zane Grey's tireless riders of the purple sage, lone star rangers and wanderers of the wasteland, he decided, were interesting for a curious reason: They were like the heroes of some folk tale that had never quite got written. Nobody would compare the stories of Zane Grey to Beowulf, but before Beowulf there were probably generations of crude...
...pair of detectives, falls in love with one and unintentionally kills the other with knockout drops, trics in vain to go to jail for her numerous misdeeds, and then deserts her inquisitorial lover on the likely grounds that she is not good enough for him. There is a very sage Swiss inspector who sees through the detective's transparent fabrication to cover the adventuress, and advises that they part. He is the only acceptable character in the play. For the others interact with a combination of such elephantine whimsy and strained heroics, that neither they not the action they produce...
inveterate sage, author & traveler, arrived in Manhattan fresh from Doom and his annual spring visit with his bearded bosom friend, onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II. Minus his customary velvet jacket, his customary flowing bow tie, Octogenarian Bigelow in high good humor delivered himself to newshawks on this & that. On the Kaiser: "He doesn't set up as good a table as some of my neighbors." On Europe: "Next time I see you, Paris will be a provincial town of Germany with the people shouting 'Heil Hitler' in French." On Franklin Roosevelt: "President Roosevelt, I think...