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Morse Code. In Los Angeles, Mrs. John H. Morse divorced her husband, whose custom it was to leave her at a cheap movie while he went on to a more expensive...
Clergymen will also be asked to revive the old New England custom of "election sermons," plump for candidates who show awareness that political life needs the leaven of Christian teaching to make good political, economic and social conditions...
Dean Garrison was elected at a meeting of the Directors of the Alumni Association held at the Boston Harvard Club. As is the usual custom, he is a member of the class which this year celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary...
...Work Goes On. Most likely successor to the retiring Chief Justice is his able subordinate and close friend, mustached French-Canadian Justice Thibaudeau Rinfret (rhymes with kin-fret) because of Canada's custom of alternating top judicial appointments between the two language groups and major religions. French and Catholic, balding Justice Rinfret, like his colleague, believes that the law is not an "affair of literal precepts but a social instrument...
Last week Jockey Atkinson's custom-made, unrationed boots were in the stirrups of seven winners at Tropical Park. Florida's racing was only three weeks old, Phalean would not be open until late this week, but already he was the season's No. 1 jockey...