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...Nearest competitor of British War Relief is Bundles for Britain (745 Fifth Avenue, New York City), smartly named brainchild of vigorous, hazel-eyed Natalie Wales Latham, 30-year-old socialite. Irked by the slowness of U. S. aid to Britain, she got in touch with Mrs. Winston Churchill, heard that England needed knitted garments. Passersby astonished her by storming her modest initial shop. Said she: "Boy, if ever there was spontaneity, this...
Quail trials are old stuff to Albany. But last week's event was something new-different from any field trial ever held in the U. S. Brainchild of a native named Richard Tift and backed by rich sportsmen including Coca-Cola Chairman Robert W. Woodruff, Manhattan Banker William C. Potter (Guaranty Trust), Walter C. Teagle (Standard Oil), this trial was an invitation affair, to determine the nation's best quail dog. To compete for this new crown came 16 "masters," chosen on performance at 53 recognized trials during the past two years...
President Conant's brainchild needs nourishment. Its father recommended the study of "our national cultural history," hunted up money to pay expenses, then left it to take care of itself. Now, after three years, the American Civilization Plan is not yet a grown infant; indeed it is little more than a foetus...
...causes. As a matter of fact this step was an unnecessary precaution as was evidenced by the exclamation of one woman who was scanning the reams of political literature which was thrust into here hands by zealous admirers of one thing or another. One said "Defeat Wealthy Harvard's Brainchild--Plan E." "Hey, Pastl" she summoned her assiduous escort, "Who's dis guy Harvard...
...product of this trend is Candidate McMasters who polled 48,000 votes in Massachusetts' Republican primary for Governor, although he did not have the official Townsend accolade. Nor was his deal with Candidate Saltonstall the brainchild, as many observers guessed, of shrewd young Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. It was engineered by an opportunist even shrewder: William Henry McMasters...