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...little Olivet College, a school of Congregational leanings in Olivet, Mich., T. Barton Akeley, 47, had taught political science for twelve years. To townspeople of rural, conservative Olivet, Akeley was a queer fellow: he wore a goatee and a beret, held unpopular opinions, and once appeared downtown in shorts. Some of the alumni looked askance at him: he was critical of fraternities and intercollegiate sports. And to some of Olivet's 17-man board of trustees, Akeley's self-admitted "general disposition to be critical" about college affairs was a stiff pain in the neck...
...true "Glasgow weather," some 30,000 Glaswegians gathered one day last week at the rain-drenched, mist-shrouded shipyard of John Brown & Co. There they cheered as Princess Elizabeth, in a new green coat and beret-like hat, with young Philip Mountbatten at her side, swung a bottle against the towering bow of the new Cunard White Star liner Caronia. Down the ways slid the 34,000-tonner, the biggest passenger ship launched anywhere since the war. The hull was towed to a dockyard basin, where it will need another ten months of outfitting before it is ready for service...
...tennis public would like Kramer better if he were more of a showman. They like the melodramatics of a Tilden, the antics of a beret-bearing Borotra, the Cockney ping-pongery of a Perry. Kramer makes his "big game" look too easy...
There was a bald spot now where his familiar blue beret used to be, but his thin face, jerky, stiff-armed strokes and debonair air were unmistakable. It was Jean Borotra all right, back on the same Manhattan courts where he had four times won the U.S. indoor tennis title (1925, 1927, 1929, 1931). The occasion: an exhibition match with an old rival, the U.S.'s ex-Davis Cupper Francis X. Shields...
During the war (he was abruptly drafted in 1942 while beating the drum for a second front) Owen served as pressagent to his old friend Mountbatten. He edited the cheesecake-laden SEAC in Lord Louis' South East Asia Command, wore a Monty-style beret but never the insignia of his rank (lieutenant colonel). When he came home last summer, he no longer seemed so positive that Socialism had all the answers. His "Good Morning!" column in the Daily Mail didn't exactly hew to the Tory line, but it sometimes took a micrometer to measure the difference...