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...grey old man was surely "the sounding bell of this world," wrote Russian Novelist Maxim Gorky. "Surely he is great and holy, [although] sometimes he seems to be conceited and intolerant, like a Volga preacher." Sometimes it was "painfully unpleasant" to hear his comments on women: "a string of indecent words . . . unspeakably vulgar. . . . He is really a whole orchestra, but not all the horns are playing in unison. ... It is terribly stupid to call a man a genius. It is quite impossible to understand what genius is. It is far simpler and clearer to say-Leo Tolstoy...
Nonscheduled carriers cried that this was a rate war to drive them out of business. It would not be so much a war as a massacre. Most nonscheduled carriers operate on a shoe string; American had millions to pour into the fight...
...estimated 2500 that will confront University officials by September. The bottleneck has been predicted for many months; the Housing office has scoured a Cambridge already crowded to the saturation point; the Alumni have been asked to help, and the University has achieved near miracles on a shoe-string investment. But the fact remains that unless the University administration matches talk with cash, unless emergency units of almost any sort are set up within the next three months, close to 20 percent of the student body must forego either their families or their education...
...never heard a better toastmaster. He knew all the big and middle-sized people by their first names. Yet gaunt George William Stimpson had never amounted to much as a Washington correspondent. At 49, he was barely making a living by grubbing regional news for his little string of Texas papers...
...told, the volumes make a wonderfully cranky, talky, valuable record, as honest as daylight, as native as Congress gaiters and a black string tie. The latest installment is probably the crankiest and talkiest of the lot: a huge collection of clips, quotes, yarns, letters, anecdotes, poor jokes, explanations and refutations. The arrangement is roughly chronological, pointed up with oldtime editorial subheads ("A Doubting Thomas Converted," "Are Dreadnaughts Doomed?"), illustrated with practically a national gallery of photographs and political cartoons...