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LORD TIMOTHY DEXTER of Newburyport, Mass. Realizing, as no stuffy conformist would, that the quickest way to become a U.S. peer is to confer the title on oneself, Dexter sensibly did just that. "It is the voise of the peopel," he explained in his firm, aristocratic prose, "and I cant Help it and ... it dont hurt A Cat ..." Born in 1747, America's first peer started life "Dressin of skins for briches & glovs," would probably never have grown too big for his briches had he not spent every penny of his savings buying up U.S. "Continentals" and state securities...
...second speaker, Dexter Perkins '09, reviewed highlights in the career of Charles Evans Hughes, who he said "embodied the spirit...
Arthur L. Goodhart, Master of University College at Oxford, and Professor Dexter Perkins of Cornell University, will speak this morning to alumni of University graduate schools...
...James P. Cavanagh came close to Fitzgerald's mood without sticking to Fitzgerald's theme. The play retained the tender struggle of the central characters, but juggled scenes and dialogue to capture the nuances of the separate worlds that preoccupied Fitzgerald-the middle class of "proud, desirous" Dexter Green and the cashmere-on-the-golf-links security of Judy Jones, whom Dexter saw always "in a soft deep summer room," peopled with the men who had already loved her. Talented young (28) Director John Frankenheimer extracted an extraordinary piquancy from British Actress Dana Wynter, who as Judy...
...times in his life, he moved so far out of the back room that he found himself on the end of a very long limb. At a Chicago luncheon, Brownell made a speech identifying the Treasury Department's onetime Director of Monetary Research Harry Dexter White as a Soviet agent, and strongly implying that Harry Truman was disloyal. Brownell now says: "I felt the matter was so serious that it had to be brought to public attention in fast and dramatic fashion." But he was forced to eat his unjust words about Truman, and a serious, legitimate case...