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Inside Dope. Stewart Alsop moved ahead of all the rest, and openly bid for the covered dish on the table. He had talked to National Committeeman Emmet Kelley, a Truman big wheel in New Hampshire, who predicted "a Truman landslide." Alsop predicted one, too, gave Kefauver an "outside chance" of "capturing just one delegate." One reason for that, Alsop said, was that Kefauver had "incautiously" transgressed "one of the great, built-in rules of American politics . . . that you simply do not challenge an incumbent President in your own party...
John Hart won the one-mile Darcey Cup race in senior Siugles with Dick Emmet of the Law School second. Stu McDill and Sam Hear placed one and two in the three-quarter mile junior singles, while Frank Manheim and John Carnes came in first and second in the half-mile novice singles...
...Magnificent Yankee (MGM) is an affectionate salute to the late Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the U.S. Supreme Court, but not a very impressive one. Patterning the movie after his own 1946 Broadway play, Scripter Emmet Lavery sentimentalizes Holmes's life in Washington in the years between T.R. and F.D.R...
...Hopkins, of Cambridge, and a student in the Buckingham School, won the Departmental Award in History, and award given on the basis of competitive exams. Honorable mention went to Lois Ann Dickson, of Portland, Me. and Portland High School, Lily Emmet, of New York City and Joan Brearley School, and Martha Roland, of Drexel Hills, Pa., and the Agnes Irwin School. Over 59 students took the history examinations...
Playwright-Biographer Robert Emmet (Roosevelt and Hopkins) Sherwood told the New York Times Magazine how he had found, among the newly opened archives of his old friend Franklin Delano Roosevelt, some unpublished correspondence between F.D.R. and the late William Allen White, philosopher-publisher of Emporia, Kans. One of the letters, which had contained a snapshot of F.D.R. in one of his favorite seersucker suits, began "Dear Bill: Here is the seersucker picture, duly inscribed by the sucker to the seer...