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Princess Margaret* had a busy week among the gossipists. First they had her about to be engaged to Prince George of Denmark, 28-year-old military attaché at the Danish Embassy. (He flatly denied it.) Two days later the Sunday Pictorial declared that the No. 1 man in the picture was really the 30-year-old Earl of Derby, "Britain's most eligible bachelor...
...Freshman at Harvard in particular wants desperately to find a group to which he can attach himself, and, since there is little or no opportunity to meet his intellectual colleagues in the lecture hall or even in the section, he turns to some formal or informal social group whose only common denominator is an interest in football games, cocktail parties, and desultory bull sessions...
...correspondent," Foreign Assistant Editor Donald M. Wallace wrote to one of them, "should listen to all prominent politicians and attach himself to none; he should always be in the orchestra stalls, but never jump on the stage." Some could not resist jumping. In 1899, the Paris correspondent reported Queen Victoria's indiscreet telegram to her embassy, expressing horror at the verdict against Alfred Dreyfus. The exclusive story would have created an international sensation, but the dispatch was killed. "It was not for the Times," says the history, "to indulge in such triumphs...
Senator Vandenberg himself had nothing to say. It was impossible, however, not to attach a certain significance to his silence. Eleven months ago he had issued a pointed, eloquent statement that he would not "connive" to get the presidency. But as Sigler & Co. began trumpeting last week, he uttered no word of rebuke...
Seven foreign military attachés, on an inspection tour through a Canadian artillery training center, were asked a recurring question: Did they think Russia had The Bomb yet? Their answers...