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...what I read in the German papers is true, there is an old-fashioned set-to going on at Harvard--and in, a grand manner, as it were, over the offer of Dr. Hanfstaengl. I wish I could be there to watch the verbal pyrotechnics, but since I can't, I'll take no sides. But here's an article from the "Volkischer Beobachter"--Munich edition of October 10--which I thought might interest you. The English is obviously mine, but I assure you it came from very good German...
...Morrows as well as their ally Mr. McLellan suffered from Mr. Leavitt's verbal barrage, but heavier with the Federal referee weighed the fact that the chain-store's sales and profits were on the rise. Upshot was a postponement of the sale until next January when full-year reports would be in. Meantime McLellan stock began to rise from the low of $1 per share. By last fortnight it was selling at $12.50 and for several days was the most active issue on the New York Stock Exchange. These fireworks caught the eagle eye of the Securities...
...Auden lies the gulf of the War. Much murmured of late by the literati, these two new names were last fortnight introduced to a U. S. audience. Tories in their own country (England) have already damned them as bumptious poetasters. To plain readers, who find Poet Robinson's verbal sinuosities occasionally obscure, they may appear largely unintelligible. But youthful amateurs of poetry will con them with interest, sometimes with enthusiasm. Their elders will not be quick to applaud either their language or their sentiments: both grate harshly...
Prince Felix announced to the Press what had happened at Viareggio. In Rome the press office of Il Duce gave verbal confirmation...
...Beebe's verbal description of this monster sped up a half-mile of telephone wire into the ears of a pretty, yellow-haired young woman named Gloria Hollister, who recorded the Beebe babblings in her fleet shorthand. Equipped with the conventional headphones and mouthpiece of a switchboard girl but dressed like a champion tennist, Miss Hollister resembled a cinemactress playing a part more than the earnest young scientist...