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United Press's Merriman ("Thank you Mr. President") Smith, on his way back from lunch when the shooting began, was also beaten-by U.P. Police Reporter Bryce Burke, who picked up the news at police headquarters. U.P.'s bulletin went out at 2:26. Associated Press's Sterling Green got to the scene with I.N.S.'s Nixon, but waited a few minutes to get a few more details before he called in from a drugstore. A.P.'s bulletin time: 2:32. Its text: "Three men-possibly four-were shot today in a gun battle...
Married. Marie Josephine Hartford O'Donnell Makaroff ("Jo") Douglas, 43, granddaughter of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.'s late Founder George Huntington Hartford; and John F. C. Bryce, 43, onetime British Intelligence officer; she for the fourth time, he for the third; in Aiken...
...Lord Lyons (1859-65), who took the hot blast of Northern resentment at British help to the South. ¶ James Bryce (1907-13), who was well known in the U.S., before he became Ambassador, for his great book The American Commonwealth. Bryce was widely respected; when he attended the Old Presbyterian Church in Washington he was always escorted to Abraham Lincoln's pew. ¶ Sir Cecil Spring Rice (1913-18), the World War I Ambassador, so supercautious that he dared make only one public speech in his five years in the U.S. ¶ Rufus Isaacs, Lord Reading...
...Glittering Prize. For the winner, the nomination would be more than "the glittering prize" which Historian James Bryce once called it. It would be a terrible responsibility. On the eve of the convention, Dwight Eisenhower, who had been the people's first choice in virtually every pre-convention poll, reminded Republicans of that worldwide fact...
...American Democracy is such a study. Readers are not likely to rank it (as his eager-beaver publishers do) with De Tocqueville's Democracy in America (1835) and Lord Bryce's American Commonwealth (1888). But they will find that it stands head & shoulders above the kind of superficial once-over exemplified by, say, John Gunther's Inside U.S.A. (TIME, June...