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President Conant with a few introductory remarks next presented the principal speaker of the evening, William A. Neilson, president of Smith College. Displaying a wit which matched his wisdom, President Neilson offered advice to the Freshmen with which to start their college career. At the beginning of his talk, Neilson remarked that some day President Conant will realize that what is said to the Freshmen on their first night at college doesn't matter in the least for they will promptly forget...
...wit is largely satirical. A bare-faced satire on the national bestseller of the moment, Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, Irving Tressler's How to Lose Friends and Alienate People had nothing up its sleeve to match its name or its blurb: "What I think of Irving D. Tressler couldn't be printed in anything but Braille-and then it would be too hot to touch. ... It is the only book which is today offsetting the 20-year drive by American advertisers to make everyone in this country popular with everyone else...
...Guffey of Pennsylvania, a favor by giving an I. C. C. berth to Senator Guffey's brother-in-law Carroll Miller. Mr. Miller, a lanky six-footer whose lantern jaw, stooped shoulders and pince-nez make him look like a schoolmaster and whose extraordinary drawl and dry wit sometimes make him sound like a Will Rogers type hayseed, hails from Richmond, Va., has spent most of his 62 years running utilities in the U. S. and Japan. Since marrying Mary Emma Guffey in 1902, he has made Pittsburgh his headquarters, is currently president of Thermatomic Corp...
Oldsters to whom the charade is the "prince of puzzles" will find this collection better than most since the nimble wit of Winthrop Mackworth Praed set the record. Closer to the riddle verse of folklore than to crossword puzzles, "Pa" Rolfe's charades ought to meet the hot-weather demand of many a plain reader for something humorous that does not cost much and may take the rest of the summer to finish...
...UNHOLY CITY-Charles G. Finney -Vanguard ($2). Satirical phantasy, in the Major Hoople cartoon vein of wit, about an airline passenger grounded in Floreat Go-Lee; by the author of The Circus...