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Birthday. Britain's George VI, his 45th, observed "somewhere in the country" with his Queen and two daughters, but-because of rationing-without his usual plum cake at tea. Official celebration waits till June, when colors can be trooped with better prospect of sunshine. Last week the fourth anniversary of his accession to Edward YIU's throne occurred...
...Lately they have told the President in no uncertain terms that as a candidate next fall Mr. Edison would be sadly handicapped if he were passed over in his own department. The President heeded, last week announced that the son of late, great Thomas Alva Edison will be the 45th Secretary of the Navy. The wise in Washington did not waste much time and breath on the continual debate as to whether Charles Edison is an effective naval administrator. Onetime (1913-20) Assistant Secretary Franklin Roosevelt has been heard to say that he is his own Secretary of the Navy...
Last week, when Dr. Leach rolled into Manhattan in his twelve-cylinder red Cadillac for the 45th annual convention of the N. M. A., the storm broke. A small group of Manhattan physicians, led by distinguished Skull-Surgeon Louis Tompkins Wright, started a movement to oust President-elect Leach. But Dr. Leach clung on. He insisted that he had been framed by Federal agents in 1928. "I had only one quart of Sandy MacDonald in my possession," he said, "and I was taking it home for my personal use." He promised to resign if the convention would only pass...
...faced Norman Hume Anthony got fired as editor of Judge nine years ago and spent several months biting his nails in Frank & Jack's speakeasy on Manhattan's West 45th Street before Publisher George T. Delacorte hired him to put out a bathroom burlesque of bathroom advertising called Ballyhoo. In four issues circulation went up to 1,000,000. Long after later issues and lesser imitators had made the idea as stale as a used towel, Messrs, Delacorte & Anthony continued to put out Ballyhoo. It shrank to digest size, became a quarterly. Finally, two months ago, it folded...
...Cambridge, Mass, before sailing to receive an honorary degree from Oxford University, England. Justice Roberts headed for his Pennsylvania farm; Justice Black for a rented house at Seminary, Va.; Justice Butler for an honorary degree from Boston College, then his farm at Woodbine, Md.; Justice Stone for his 45th class reunion at Amherst, then for Isle au Haut...