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Under the clean autumn sunlight, the land burgeoned with plenty. The second largest corn crop in history drowsed on the fields of Iowa, Illinois and Indiana. Other crops were short of alltime records, but bountiful beyond the dreams of the farmers of other lands...
...wholesome thump of foot on pigskin and the blare of 25,000 brass bands sounded over the land. Yet in the autumn of 1951, even the appetite for football was soured by the breath of scandal. More serious was the fact that investigations of organized crime growing out of the Kefauver hearings were getting nowhere. In New York a swarthy little gambler called Harry Gross insolently defied the law to do its worst, and the district attorney could only weep in helpless anger...
...nearby Elizabeth, N.J. Retired Rear Admiral William S. Maxwell, the deputy smoke commissioner whose mistake was to crack down too hard on smoke violators while his boss was away, bitterly told an audience: "I know I am going to be fired." In the uneasy air of 1951's autumn, a sense of wrong stained the air like smog...
Thus last week London's Tory Daily Express greeted the long-awaited, long-deferred decision of Prime Minister Clement Attlee to call autumn elections. Britain will elect a new Parliament...
Charles Guy Fulke Greville, Earl of Warwick, 40, left England's autumn heat to spend five days as the house guest of Luisa Maria, Duchess of Valencia, the often-arrested monarchist gadfly of Franco Spain. After sightseeing in Madrid and a round of motoring, swimming and riding, the Earl presented the Duchess with a small memento of the occasion: a pair of Cartier's diamond cuff links bearing the Warwick coat of arms. The little interlude ended with gallant restraint as the Earl kissed his hostess' hand, boarded a plane and made his farewell: "Thank you, Luisa...