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Captain Franny Simpson's stalwarts are now riding on the crest of a victory wave, having swamped M.I.T., Brown, and Wesleyan. The Huskies, in their only contest this year, beat Colby which in turn has wins over Clark and New Hampshire Universities...
...khaki and gold uniform as Colonel Commandant of the Johore Military Forces and marched into Caxton Hall Registry Office to marry Miss Mendl. She turned up in silver fox and orchids, wearing a diamond brooch in which the Crown of Johore was flanked by the Sultan's crest, two tiger claws. Wailed the parents of never-married Miss Hill, "It has come as a great shock...
Observers said last night that Plan E was adopted on the crest of one of the largest Republican turnouts in local history. Because of the intense interest in the presidential election, many more Republicans than in 1938 cast their ballots yesterday, almost all of them for the new charter...
...Poughkeepsie station President Roosevelt smoked calmly until the train from the north came in-green coaches emblazoned with the Canadian crest. Protocol-Master George Thomas Summerlin dropped his hand-rolled, brown-paper cigaret, brushed off his pencil-stripe trousers, walked down the station stairs to greet the tweedy Guards-mustached Earl of Athlone, Governor General of Canada, his wife, Princess Alice, their daughter, Lady May Abel Smith...
Many a student organization would have died on its feet with as lame an opening meeting as the one held last night by the American Student Defense League, Harvard Chapter. But this League will not die soon, for it is undeniably riding the crest of a great wave of U. S. public opinion. It will last and probably grow, until no one will think any longer to ask the bothersome question, "What place is there for this group here?" Now, if ever, is the time to ask it, to inquire whether the League really seeks the utmost efficiency in defense...