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...citation, read by David McCord '21, president of the Signet Associates, said "Gluyas Williams: Distinguished artist in black and white, whose satire, wit, and diverging sympathies have colored countless drawings in our national press...
...doubly enjoyable to find good writing in a journal whose undergraduate contributors have often had crippling struggles with the mother tongue, and likewise to find controversy conducted with wit, urbanity, and detachment...
...terms, since no bankers would fight their monopoly. After five years of dickering I. R. T.'s then President Theodore P. Shonts put on a great show of letting the city get the better side of the bargain. A man of wit, he remarked: "I was fairly well dressed when I went into that room, but they've taken away everything but my shirt." To enable Mr. Shonts to dress again I. R. T. promptly recompensed him with a $150,000 bonus and doubled his salary...
...June 29, probably in the Yankee Stadium. Delighted, Tony bit the cap off a beer bottle (see cut), galumphed off for a swim, pausing to write in the sand with a pudgy forefinger: "Tony Galento, heavyweight champ." When he porpoised back he predicted: "I'll flatten dat bum wit' one punch...
...American humor is steadily moving towards French wit," said Andre Maurois, distinguished French author and scholar, in an interview last night. "It is the influence of city life on American authors that is bringing this change, most evident in the humor of such typical publications as "The New Yorker," he continued...