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...prep school swimmer and football player, he confesses to an insider's knowledge of only one sport: horse racing (his father was a horse owner and trainer who made the circuit from Cuba to Montreal for 15 years). Smith, who is 34, came to TIME five years ago via his native Baltimore's Evening Sun, the Providence Star-Tribune and Journal, where he wrote sports and features for seven years, and the NBC news room. Writing for TIME'S Sport department, however, involved a considerable departure from newspaper technique...
...kick Mississippi's ranting John Rankin off the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Administration leaders ruled him off because he was going to be chairman of another committee (Veterans' Affairs)-a technicality specially thought up to get rid of him. Rankin was not surprised. Fortnight ago he grumbled: "The word seems to have come down from Moscow to keep me off." On another technicality (that all committee members be lawyers), Louisiana's F. Edward Hebert, a fellow Dixiecrat of Rankin's, was also unseated. With the Administration so far in charge, the 81st Congress...
More cherished are the thanks of all those whom she has helped or to whom she has given joy. One musicologist wrote not long ago, "She receives the homage of every musician the world over." A declaration from President Roosevelt for the celebration of her eightieth birthday probably best expresses the gratitude of the public. "Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge has done what none before her had found the means to do. No one has contributed more to the understanding of music in America, and no one has given greater encouragement to writers and performers of music in America than Mrs. Coolidge...
Robert C. Fisher '51 yesterday issued his "last statement of any kind" regarding his removal two weeks ago as an NSA delegate and an ex officio member of the Student Council...
...thus far in the New England League, with one of their wins coming against M.I.T. and two of their losses against Boston University (a team which edged the Crimson 6-4 in the season's opener). B.U. whipped the Huskies 7 to 4 in a close game three weeks ago and 6 to 3 last night...