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Warm State Department friends as the New Deal began were bald Mr. Bullitt and John C. Wiley, able career man renowned for his grave wit. Both wifeless, they were the liveliest members of the U. S. delegation to the London Economic Conference whiled away many a happy shipboard hour dancing with the delegation's young stenographers. When President Roosevelt made Friend Bullitt first U. S. Ambassador to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Friend Wiley went along as Counselor of Embassy. Then came a rift in the diplomatic comradeship. Counselor Wiley married a Polish sculptress named Irene Baruch. Relations...
Twenty minutes before the curtain rose last Saturday night on his current production "Tonight at 8.30", Noel Coward, arch-wit and epigrammatist of the English and American stages, was made an honorary member of the Advisory Board of the Harvard Dramatic Club, backstage at the National Theatre in New York...
...clear light on one of the strangest characters in U. S. political and literary life. The strongest impression they communicate is that Adams had stupidly patronized a vital, vivid, unexpected character who wrote almost as well as he did and who had a spontaneous liveliness that matched his dry wit. Marian, familiarly known as "Clover," rattled on in her letters to her father, with all the garrulousness Adams ascribed to her, but with a humor for which Adams did not give her credit, about their visits to great London houses, Washington scandals, political intrigues, trips to Spain, Italy, Switzerland...
...than a gold mine for perspicacious scholars and philologists. In it, for the first time, we find slightly gross incidents, evidently too perturbing for the delicate tastes of former Victorian editors. New light is shed on Boswell's simple, superstitious nature, and Johnson gives us more logic and heavy wit. There is, perhaps, no better account of life in Scotland around...
Five hundred business students who jammed Baker Library at the Business School last night were treated to a speech at the same time highly enlightening and generously sprinkled with the choicest Cantor wit...