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...Versailles of Venezuela" Sirs: Fancy how hurt we Maracayans were to see your map of South America in the Dec. 24 issue with never a mention of Maracay. You say "Caracas, city of perpetual spring and home of General Gomez." All wrong! Gomez, le Grand, never sets foot in Caracas, he lives, breathes and transacts all business right here in Maracay- the Versailles of Venezuela. And what's more. at least 60 of his 84 acknowledged children live in and round the town. He is the original bachelor father, as you may or may not know. AND the Reigning...
...Fakirs who dally with venomous snakes take good care to defang them. "Wrong, very wrong. The crude, untutored Hindu may resort to this expedient, but it is not done in professional circles among American snake experts. You will note that I use the more dignified term-"experts." We resent the name "fakirs." We study the nature of our snakes and it is not necessary to "defang" them, not at all. You will note that I place myself among the "experts." Thirty years experience among the rattlers. A good line that? And I never had to "defang" one, except on special...
...Roberts is right, there are a great many things wrong with Harvard. The traditional atmosphere is a take, the College is over-infested with a queer specimen called a "dean," Harvard men are enthusiastically indifferent and "run screaming" when attempts are made to penetrate this false cloak of self-consciousness, the names of all clubs are asinine, the College is run by temperamental Student Council Reports, graduate school students are social pariahs because they have lost "the true Harvard bloom", and, most significant of all, the "cozy collegetts" (Mr. Roberts' nomenclature for the units of the House plan) constitute...
...brew of the country can't be wrong...
...brew of the country can't be wrong...