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What prompted Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin to collect owls? Why do normally intelligent people collect cuspidors, garters, hearses, thimbles? Very simple, say the Rigbys: collecting is one of the basic instincts-animal as well as human (the proprietor of a London restaurant spent years blaming souvenir-hunting patrons for the disappearance of napkins; eventually he discovered that a fat brown rat had built a nest in the wall of the restaurant, there amassed a collection...
Nutmeg State. For the second time in a gubernatorial election, Connecticut's able, internationalist G.O.P. Governor Raymond Baldwin took the measure of the Democrats' New Dealing, ex-Governor Robert A. Hurley...
...Connecticut last week, the New Deal candidate for governor made a desperate attempt to defeat popular Republican Governor Raymond E. Baldwin by accusing him of having "deserted" Willkie to become a "Hoover Republican." Governor Baldwin, who seconded Willkie's nomination in Philadelphia in 1940, and who had been a strongpoint in Willkie's strategy ever since, could not take this lying down. So Governor Baldwin told a little history. Said...
...Rushville, Ind., Edith Willkie, "distressed" by the political argument about her husband, asked that all speculation cease. Said Governor Baldwin: "I sympathize with her feelings and agree...
Wendell Willkie, Hanson W. Baldwin, William C. Bullitt and others who have been slapped down by the Russian press were joined by unexpected company last week. Soundly slapped down by Izvestia were British ex-Pacifist philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad (The Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of the Better World) and Harold Laski, British leftist economist, friend of Russia and sometime White House guest. Said Izvestia: "Meddling advisers." Their offense: signing a British National Peace Council petition urging a "strategy of mercy" toward Germany...