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...taken another island in the Pacific. Aboard a destroyer a young Navy surgeon was actor and spectator in one of the thousands of throat-tightening epilogues that follow the thundering drama of battle. He described it in this letter to his sister...
Died. Stephen Butler Leacock, 74, famed Canadian humorist and economist; after a throat operation in Toronto...
...faculty, Stephen Leacock tentatively thought of returning to his native England, then decided to stay in Canada. Said he: "Fetch me my carpet slippers ... I'll rock it out to sleep right here." Last week, at 74, he died in a Toronto hospital, after an operation for throat cancer. Mourning was not confined to McGill, nor to Canada...
...columnist is the autocrat of the most prodigious breakfast table ever known. He is the voice beside the cracker barrel amplified to transcontinental dimensions. He is the only nonpolitical figure of record who can clear his throat each day and say, 'Now, here's what I think. . .' with the assurance that millions will listen . . . [but] in a sense he is irresponsible. No newspaper stands or falls by his words. In him . . . the newspapers have found a method of restoring their lost personal fire without possibly awkward aftermaths...
...bald Sauer took the teakwood floor of the House of Assembly to fume: "The Governor of our sister state [Southern Rhodesia's Sir Evelyn Baring] traveled in a small coupe compartment but the crooner (a crooner is someone who sings as if something were wrong with his throat) came in a special coach. Have we lost our balance to such an extent that we make heroes of film actors and music-hall luminaries at the state expense?" Twitted a Cape Towner: "Please, Mr. Sauer, don't be beastly to Mr. Coward." Twitted Coward, observing that in his wartime...