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...television receiver truly the control center . . . The snap of a switch will turn the receiver from the broadcast program to view the children asleep in the nursery or at play in the yard, or the cooking on the kitchen range. The housewife will not only hear but see the caller at the door before she opens...
...Industrialist Owen D. Young (onetime Democratic elder statesman who supported Eisenhower last year). Squarejawed, stubborn Dean Young has the reputation of selecting able associates. He is a sailing enthusiast, a maker (and smoker) of fine briar pipes, and he has been called the best square-dance caller in New York's Herkimer County. The President said that Young would be elevated to Civil Service chairmanship as soon as the Senate confirmed the nomination, added that he would be invited to attend Cabinet meetings...
Charlie Maloy, Holy Cross play caller, edged Yale's Ed Molloy, Columbia's Mitch Price, and B.U.'s Harry Agganis for the quarterback position, in what was reported as the closest contest...
...student and a Radcliffe girl who advertised in Saturday's CRIMSON for tickets on Saturday reported numerous answers asking on the average of $15 to $20 a pair. One caller asked only the set rate of $9.60 for two end zone seats, but another wanted $20 for two on the 15. Neither the law student nor the 'Cliffedweller have arranged a purchase yet, but both agreed they would go as high as $7.50 for "good" seats...
...interested in your Oct. 6 review of Recollections of Three Reigns. Fifty years ago I was a page boy in the Naval and Military Club in London. I paged Sir Frederick Ponsonby, calling his name, as it was then, "Colonel Ponsonby," but no response. Back at the desk the caller said: "I know he is in; try again." I made a second round of the rooms, calling "Colonel Ponsonby." This time a sharp voice responded: "Boy! I am General Ponsonby." He had been listed general in that same morning's Gazette. An example of protocol if ever there...