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Queen Elizabeth, fresh as the morning dew, drove in her Daimler through the dingy streets of London's East End and was cheered by crowds that were ten-deep. Next day, with blowing of trumpets and banging of brasses, she showed herself and was cheered in middle-class Chelsea and Kensington. She conferred knighthoods on Colonel John Hunt, organizer of the British expedition that conquered Everest, and on New Zealander Edmond Hillary, who made it to the top. At week's end, the Queen watched England's greatest jockey, Gordon Richards, newly knighted, win his first Derby...
Bill McCurdy's team has been picking up points all season by scoring heavily in the short distances and the hurdles. Up to this meet no one has challenged Bob Twitchell and Pete Dew. But Yale has Hank Thresher, sophomore sprinter who has overcome polio to run the 100 in 9.9 and the 220 in 21.6 this season. He is backed by Larry Reno, another sophomore...
...subject matter under inquiry. All that it holds is that the witness who refuses to respond to such questions is not guilty of criminal conduct. That holding, though limited, should not be overlooked by persons who are concerned with the impact of congressional investigations on American universities. Mark DeW. Howe...
...Fever Dew In Sicily. King Richard gathers his host at Vézelay in France, and there the two squires meet a brilliant young Frenchman, Guy de Passy. John is puzzled by the fellow, Robert not. "It is this manner of the great world about him that astonishes and charms you," he says to John. "I think he rates us lowly . . . myself discontented and half a monk; you a staunch simpleton . . . I would say he is one of those people who may perish of their own cleverness...
Robert's brow is the first to take a fever dew for this belle dame sans merci, and soon the two are sighing full sore. John begins to thirst after the lady, too, but being a practical fellow, quenches himself at her serving maid. Guy comes along a little later and makes such a pretty leg that the fickle fair forgets all about Robert, who takes, in his turn, to the consolations of religion. Soon, though, it's dash away all to the Holy Land, and the drums of war drown out the viole d'amour...