‘Can you let me have threepence for an urgent telephone call?’

As Professor [John] Fiske outgoes [William] Maginn, Professor [John Churton] Collins outgoes Fiske. He ascribes to [William] Shakespeare, in effect, a greater facility in Latin than is possessed by many professional scholars, because much of Latin is for any man far harder, more elliptic, more obscure than is any modern French for a cultivated modern Englishman.

Mr. Moynihan went on to a celebrated career as a Democratic senator from New York, and Mr. Bell gave up the coeditorship of the magazine in the early ’70s, declaring himself a socialist in economics, a liberal in politics and a conservative in culture.

V. E., ♀.born 1920 (File Nr. 27, 26 October to 8 January 1954). Gastrectomy in March 1953 because of multiple ulcera of the stomach.