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Uncertain Days. In the tense final days of the debate, the crowd in the galleries and the speakers on the rostrum alike grew more emotional. Pakistan's Sir Mahmoud Zafrullah Khan, ending an argument against partition, threw back his bearded head and cried: "All praise is due to Allah...
Historian Edward Gibbon considered the 14 months he spent at Oxford "the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life." And Henry Adams thought little more of Harvard: "Four years at Harvard College . . . resulted in an autobiographical blank, a mind on which only a watermark had been stamped."
Edward Reynolds '15, administrative vice-president of the University has stamped approval on the Council's plan for a parking space behind Soldiers Field John K. Lally '49, parking committee chairman, reported last night, but added that Reynolds said the entire project must be endorsed by the Corporation before it...
When Sy first asked Marie to be on his show, she squealed, "I'm scared. It's too hard for me to read." And it is: her lines in the script are all typed in capital letters. There are other difficulties, too. Once, when the program was on...
As any amateur satirist knows, the hordes of captains, majors, commanders and other brasshats stationed in wartime Washington had other and even more crushing duties than just winning the war. Reams of mimeographed balderdash had to be stamped IMMEDIATE ACTION and provided with desk space on which to gather dust...