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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Apologies & Diamonds. Princess Elizabeth's 21st birthday party in Cape Town will be the last grand ceremonial of the African tour. There will be more salutes, more reviews, more fireworks, and another grand ball. There will be state presents for everyone: a gold box full of diamonds (to put on his Garter star) for the King; an engraved gold tea service for the Queen, 17 graduated diamonds for Margaret-and for Elizabeth herself, 21 graduated brilliant-cut diamonds interspersed with baguettes to string on a necklace. For Elizabeth that day will mean also a rise in income from...
...Government explosives expert who is charged with conspiring to give secret information to Russia. While seven Mounties guarded the courtroom, Gouzenko testified briefly that Boyer's name had been on the list of Canadians who were helping the Russians. Then, his job done, he turned in the witness box, bowed to the Bench, walked to a door at the rear of the court and stepped out of the limelight to live in hiding under a different name. Only if the police caught two spy suspects who are still at large, needed him for testifying, would Igor Gouzenko make...
...this point the commodity is hawked up and down the aisles, with moderate success. Then cones the piece de resistance. A small yellow box is held up. "This carton I have here contains a new product of the Toe-Main Company, never before put on the market. Nossir, folks, you can't get this on the outside. Of course the candy alone is worth the fifty cents we are asking; but, in addition as a special introductory offer, the Toe-Main Company has placed a generous gift in each and every box. They include: a Remington electric shaver, a twelve...
...among Austria, Poland, Greece, and China, except for specially earmarked contributions that have been apportioned as directed, and $4000 that has been allotted to the Salzburg Student Seminar and Rest Center. Funds will be channeled immediately to the World Student Service Fund in New York, for transference abroad. The box score: Adams House $1332.96 Claverly Hall 452.00 Dunster House 1161.66 Eliot House 1353.98 Kirkland House 1139.06 Leverett House 880.17 Lowell House 1827.57 Winthrop House 1298.45 Yard 1894.35 Non-resident undergraduates 499.25 Graduate Schools 6172.64 Faculty 3044.90 Radcliffe 1204.72 Miscellaneous 338.54 Total...
...Canadiens get their punch from the "punch line" composed of Maurice Richard (TIME, Mar. 3), Toe Blake and Elmer Lach (out for the rest of this season with a fractured skull). Ten years ago Blake was a leading tenant of what Montrealers call le pénitencier (penalty box). But last year, a reformed character, he won the Lady Byng Clean Play Trophy...