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January. Near Winchester, Ind., a bull gored the auto of Jack Townsend, the county's artificial inseminator...
...caustic Santayana, Charles Townsend Copeland was a mere "elocutionist" who provided a "spiritual debauch [for] many well-disposed waifs at Harvard." Copey's well-disposed waifs felt otherwise. A shrunken little man, with an actor's sense of staging, he brought literature to life for thousands of students. When the announcement went up for one of his readings, students would line the streets outside his hall. Then Copey would enter, order the doors to be locked, spend minutes adjusting his lamp, listen disdainfully for the audience to swallow its coughs, and finally begin. Over the years, those readings...
...JOHN H. TOWNSEND...
Every week, of course, the general sees a few important Americans and Japanese. When he holds forth to visitors, they are usually spellbound. Said C.I.O. Representative Willard Townsend: "I'm amazed. The man knows more about labor than I do. His ideas and convictions on labor are more progressive than mine." Said Roger Baldwin of the Civil Liberties Union: "The man's amazing. In all my years of civil liberties work, I have never found anybody with a greater understanding and a more sympathetic view toward the things we have been fighting for. Why, he even uses...
Prizes for the election competition this year will include two first awards of $50 each and three seconds of $25 each. The contest will be judged by Lewis Perry, former principal of Phillips Exeter Academy; novelist Walter D. Edmonds '26; and Major General Sherman Miles, "U.S.A. (Ret.). Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, will be an honorary judge...