People: Jan. 3, 1927

Had they been interviewed, some people who figured in last week's news might have related certain of their doings as follows:

Albert Bushnell Hart, onetime professor of history at Harvard: "Authors William E. Woodward of George Washington: The Image and The Man, whom, together with Author Rupert Hughes of George Washington: The Human Being and The Hero (1732-1762), I lately characterized as 'tyros,' amateurish, falsifying historians, last week retorted: 'I had rather be a tyro than a dodo.' I soon answered Tyro Woodward, suggesting a jury to decide the relative merits of 'tyros not...

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