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Thomas Wentworth Russell may be an ardent and efficient dope sleuth. He is also a tactful Briton. Nowhere in his report did he mention India or Britain...
...That ardent Tory, moon-faced Winston Churchill, jumped up to second...
...ardent amateur ornithologist, Stevens sat in the library of his Highland Park (Chicago suburb) home, within reach a volume of an encyclopedia open to an article on birds. Taking a revolver in hand he fired a trial shot into the fireplace, then put a bullet through his head. Insurance to be paid on his life was estimated at $300,000. His brother and his father, 79, were to go on trial with him, but the father last week lay ill unto death with apoplexy and his life insurance of $72,000 was in danger of lapsing unless premiums were paid...
...ardent reader of TIME may I voice a complaint concerning the insignificant Sports section report (TIME, March 13) of Kansas University winning the Big Six conference basketball championship for the third consecutive year...
...cripple seriously the essential functions of our educational machinery, and react to the disadvantage of future generations. Although the report gives half-hearted consent to "true economy," legislative bodies will be unable to escape the conclusion that the schools have joined the swelling ranks of state departments which, while ardent for budget balancing, insist that the axe must fall elsewhere...