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...anniversary week, fortunately, provided a breather. At the behest of Charter Member Truman, ten ladies of the 25-year-old Tuesday Bridge Club of Independence, Mo. turned up at the White House. They had paid their own way, come by plane and car, dodged reporters constantly, and were in a high state of twitters. After a sedate lunch, they chose their rooms (two shared the Lincoln bed), brought Mrs. Truman up to date on home matters, dressed for an evening concert at Constitution Hall to hear Pianist Eugene List (see Music...
When Willie Shakespeare, rumoredly at the behest of good Queen Bess, goes all out for "slap me on the ischium, and pinch me on the mammae," the result is good fun, but who said clean. When the stock company undertakes to spice it up a bit, where the heck was Jim Curley's sister...
...inducted before final examinations. Mid-terms grades, dropped because they were reported within two weeks of cumulative, have been restored for all students, who are not selected by University Hall's action except that hour exams can how be given at the discretion of instructors instead of at the behest of the deans...
...Fleet Street, fifth in circulation (with 1.5 million) among London's nine "national" newspapers, and known as the highbrow of the mass-readership field. Heading its high command is dry, aging Chocolate Tycoon Laurence J. Cadbury, whose father bought shares in 1901 (at David Lloyd George's behest) to keep them out of the clutches of Boer War imperialists. As chairman of Daily News, Ltd., Quaker Cadbury, a publisher without a peerage, leaves its operations to a devoutly Liberal triumvirate: Sir Walter Layton, quondam Cambridge don who once edited the Economist; pedantic, competent Editor (since 1936) Gerald Barry...
...first American to hold the high diplomatic post of Apostolic Delegate (to India and to Japan). He was elected chairman of the U.S. hierarchy's policy-making body, the National Catholic Welfare Conference, soon after his return to the U.S. in 1933-presumably at the Vatican's behest. He has made the N.C.W.C. a force to be reckoned with in U.S. life, from the movies and social welfare to education and political questions like the draft. He is reported once to have said: "If your score is over 100 you are neglecting your golf-if it falls below...