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New Piece de Resistance Among Keezerian Reminiscences Concerns Green Tabloid With Red Motif--Argus Is Shy

In his annual momentous interview with a CRIMSON reporter, Max Keezer, Cantabridgian wit, famed vendor and buyer of Harvardian habiliments, and unofficial plainclothes man of Harvard Square, brought several more of those first hand coups de maitre of a master wit into the limelight for posterity. Mr. Keezer, who claims to be even more expert in the matter of the philosophy of clothes than Carlyle himself, was pouring over a volume of "Sartor Resartus" when approached by the scribe in his Emporium yesterday. "Lasciate ognisperanza vio chentrate," said the original Mose of second hand clothes by way of greeting, but he was soon turned in the direction of reminiscences.

"Many years ago the boys published the great granddad of The Gadfly." Mr. Keezer fondly recalled. "It was The Anarchist, in much the same class as the Hound and Horn, being a green paper with pictures of President Eliot. Dean Briggs and myself on the front page. The Boston Advertiser had nothing on it. Those pictures went all over the world in fact. The Anarchist and all of them haven't come back yet. It is too bad though. The Hound and Horn can't be compared to a real magazine of the good old days."

Mr. Keezer displayed the inevitable modesty of the great when asked about his rise to fame in Cambridge. Many years ago I considered going into medicine, but having a pathological mind I reached the plainclothes state before I knew it. Life is like that. For 41 years I have stuck to it though, beginning with the selling of shoe laces when eight years old. Ten years later I started a business of my own in Brattle Street, but have expanded rapidly. Once I was situated where Bond's Oyster Bar is on Bow Street, but 13 years ago I managed to get just around the corner' where I am now."

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