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Such airy servings, neatly calculated to confirm preconceived British notions, have won Iddon the Fleet Street title of "Britain's Walter Winchell." Since 1943, bumptious Reporter Iddon ("let's face it, I'm a terrific egotist") has been doing his diary the way his bosses and readers seem to like it-by skimming the foam from the U.S. scene...
...Board of Overseers meets at 11 a.m. today in the Faculty Room of University Hall to confirm the appointment the Corporation recommended a week age. Overseers almost invariably rubber stamp Corporation nominations for University positions...
...Several other precipitation tests also commonly used are based on the same principle. The true Wassermann, a "complement fixation" test, often serves as a court of appeal, is used to confirm positive reactions from other tests...
...Star Finale. That was about all the committee needed to confirm its worst suspicions of the extent and brazen confidence of the Chicago syndicate. Next week, in the wind-up hearings, Estes Kefauver will bring his roadshow to New York, where an all-star cast, including Frank Costello, Joe Adonis and Meyer Lansky, unhappily awaits him. Then the committee will sit down to write its final report...
Your Dean Acheson piece reaches new, dizzier peaks of tendentiousness . . . Your determination to look facts in the face without seeing them will also confirm European alarm and dismay at. the insane irresponsibility of American politics...