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...newspaper reading. The list of last week's major winners suggested that sweepstakes are currently attracting a more substantial but less colorful clientele. Miss Martha Wellington, secretary to the advertising manager of The New Yorker, Mrs. Fannie Lebowitz of Albany, N. Y., a 71-year-old Salem, Mass, bachelor named Amos Strout, a firm of two Lynn, Mass, telephone operators, and a Hollywood billing clerk each won $150,000 with tickets on Reynoldstown. Mrs. Lebowitz said she planned to "make everybody happy." The rest said nothing and Secretary Wellington even ducked photographers...
Disclosure by the Senate of their August idyl quickly brought "the boys" into the spotlight. That night the six Congressmen notified Senator Black: "We divided and paid the expenses in the same manner any group of men maintaining 'bachelor quarters' would do. Any inference that we were guests of Mr. Smith or anyone else is entirely contrary to the facts. . . . Mr. Smith represented to the group that he was interested in conservation and irrigation in the West...
Second day of the trail the name of "Ella," which had been written on the wrapper of a pound of purloined butter, roused the court from its drowsiness. Captain Fleischer, a bachelor, explained that "Ella" was only a "trademark on Army butter." Two days later Mess Sergeant John Maresca rebutted this interpretation, testified that Fleischer had specifically ordered "one of each item of the menu of Thanksgiving dinner for his lady friend, Ella." Sergeant Maresca also revealed that Fleisher had been foolhardy enough to send a ham to Major Renn Lawrence, whose complaint led to Fleischer's court-martial...
...serious-minded, mostly preprofessional, with no mind for such collegiate capers as hazing and freshman caps. Under much the same system introduced by President Hutchins at University of Chicago, a Hopkins collegian spends his first two years in broad cultural study, may then pursue a specialty to a Bachelor's Degree or shortcut a year by starting at once after his M. A. or Ph. D. Only Hopkins change which President Bowman has so far proposed is to give his undergraduates some contact with the scholar-professors who have heretofore confined themselves to graduate departments...
...have been generous. Nearing 70, Bishop Matthews has indicated a wish to retire. The man who has served as his Bishop Coadjutor, Albion Williamson Knight, retired last autumn because of his years (76). Offered this post with the right of succession, Manhattan's Dr. Gardner, a stocky, affable bachelor of 52, announced his acceptance last Sunday...