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...library of his Surrey estate, Britain's fireball sultan of the press, Lord Beaverbrook, who recently summed up his homilies of success in a book called Don't Trust to Luck, trotted out some more reminiscences on BBC's TV in a chat observing his 75th birthday. The Beaver paid tribute to such old departed friends as Rudyard Kipling and H. G. Wells, reaffirmed his 19th century devotion to the 19th century-brand empire. With a sentimental tremor in his voice, he closed: "This may be my last appearance on television, unless I am asked again when...
...Princeton, N.J., the University of Pennsylvania crew, stroked by Canadian Jack Guest, former single sculls champion, beat Princeton by a length, Columbia by two, in the 75th anniversary Childs Cup Race...
...addition to this, Richard C. Cabot '90, at an address at the 75th anniversary celebration of the Glee Club, announced that 'public school music, church music, and the music produced when people sing round a piano at home--all these are now strongly influenced by the "Concord Series", for which Dr. Davison and Mr. Surette are responsible . . . bound volumes of this series have been sold in Switzerland, Mexico, Korca, England, Ireland, Palestine, and Canada...
...modest grey clapboard house in Princeton, N.J., Physicist Albert Einstein was deluged with letters, wires and cables from all over the world, soberly deduced that the hubbub was stirred up by the passing of his 75th birthday...
...Boiled down." says Joseph Pulitzer II, son and namesake of the founder and publisher-president of the PD, "the Platform simply means printing an honest newspaper." This week the paper celebrated its 75th anniversary in typical P-D style by looking far beyond the boundaries of Missouri. Instead of citywide fanfare, dinners and speechmaking, it put out a fat anniversary supplement, The Second American Revolution, with 33 articles on the American scene by everybody from former President Harry Truman, Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. and Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter to Poet W. H. Auden, Playwright Robert Sherwood and Cartoonist...