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After his snub by British Broadcasting Corp. last week Grey Owl announced that he was sailing immediately for the U. S. where 28 lectures await...
...Government to provide likely couples with free holidays at the seaside. This drew guffaws, but dapper, dynamic Sir Kingsley Wood easily shoved his bill through second reading 197-to-125. To get the statistics wanted by the Ministry of Health, he declared, is now "a matter too urgent to await the census of 1941," and within a few weeks British housewives will either be slamming their doors against Nosey Parkers or taking these Ministry of Health bell-pushers into their parlors and their confidence...
...pressure from the Right wing of the Administration was heavy but his advisers on the Left wing urged him to hold out until after the major legal tests of the power program are decided. The Duke Power case (PWA grants), and the Electric Bond & Share case (holding companies) await the attention of the Supreme Court. The famed 19-company challenge to TVA's constitutionality was on trial last week in Chattanooga. It is the first important case to come before one of the new special three-judge tribunals from which an appeal passes directly to the Supreme Court...
...France by U. S. District Court Judge Samuel Mandelbaum, who called her Paris coup de pistolet at Count Charles Pineton de Chambrun (TIME, Nov. 22) "an act of baseness, vileness or depravity." Few hours later, free under a $1,000 bail bond, she was ferried to Manhattan to await the outcome of an appeal to the U. S. Circuit Court. Same day Judge Mandelbaum's ruling was made, members of the cast of Manhattan's bankrupt and closed French Casino, where Magda de Fontages was to cavort, sailed on the Normandie, weeping bitterly. Said one: "We gave...
...dons its equipment for the approaching battle the Harvard team will have one of three attitudes. It won't be sick with fear, naturally, but it may await the kick-off with confidence, quake at the thought of defeat, or vow never to yield...