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...insists that the governorship "offers a greater opportunity" to him "than there is in that other office." However, his protestations leave many professional observers unconvinced. "That's par for the course," chortled an elderly party in a Washington steam bath last week. That comment came from white-thatched Earl Warren, now Supreme Court Chief Justice, who, as Governor of California in 1948, gave up his dreams of running for President and accepted second spot on a ticket headed by New Yorker Tom Dewey...
...country can bury a man with greater pomp and flourish than Britain. Yet all the trappings of power were absent last week at the funeral of Earl Attlee, Britain's Prime Minister from 1945 to 1951: there were no honor guards or artillery caissons, no press or television, no crush of spectators. Only 150 invited friends and relatives gathered in London's historic Temple Church for a brief Anglican ceremony in honor of the man who had shaped the political destiny of postwar Britain. Though his ashes later will be interred in Westminster Abbey, the simple funeral fitted...
They traded loveable Felix Mantilla for a lame-armed utility infielder. They traded home-run hitting Dick Stuart for a lame-armed pitcher. They virtually gave away a .290 hitter, Eddie Bressoud. They virtually gave away their best pitcher, Earl Wilson...
...corporations have often found it difficult to recruit top foreign talent for their overseas executive suites. Lately, however, laboring for the Yankee dollar has begun to lose its stigma. Last week, in one of the year's more remarkable personnel coups. International Business Machines landed the Earl of Cromer, former governor of the Bank of England, as chairman of its subsidiary IBM United Kingdom holdings...
...Following are excerpts from the address given on Saturday by Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States, at the Law School's Sesquicentennial Banquet...