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...Parker School, Chicago; Jere W. Bruner, Bath High school, Bath, Ohio; Francis F. Chen, Horace Mann School, New York; Giles Constable, Phillips Academy, Andover; Hampton Davis, Central High School, Sioux City, Iowa; Jack Durell '49, Bronx High School of Science, New York; Samuel I. Epstein, Boston Latin; Preston W. Gifford, Jr., Fairhaven High School, Fairhaven; Ralph Gross '49, James Madison High School, Brooklyn; Frederic D. Houghteling, Phillips Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire; Albert A. Kopf, George Washington High School, New York; Vasilios G. Letsou, Lowell High School; Norman G. Levinsky, Boston Latin; Robert F. Lundin, Medford High School' Frederick W. Marx...
...Britain's House of Commons, the art of conversation had hard going. Bookish Food Minister John Strachey (The Coming Struggle for Power) tried to interrupt a speech by another member, who suggested he "wait until I have finished." Retorted Strachey: "Keep your temper." Objected Conservative Sir Gifford Fox: "Surely that is not a ministerial expression. . . . Take your hands out of your pockets and sit down." Shouted Strachey: ". . . schoolboy stuff !" The Speaker finally got a little quiet. "There is tea being provided," he announced, "in the corridor outside...
NATHANIEL H. GIFFORD...
...Reader Gifford is right as a Ribstone pippin on the fact, may be a little off on the timing. Another story: lion & unicorn were torn down by Colonial soldiers after the British evacuated Boston March 17, 1776. To TIME's reporter, a backward look for discounting the ardor of his Revolutionary forbears...
...Died. Gifford Pinchot, 81, opinionated oldtime Progressive Republican, pioneer conservationist and Forestry chief under McKInley, Roosevelt I and Taft (1898-1910), who helped found the Bull Moose Party in 1912 and, despite opposition by G.O.P. bosses, was twice elected Pennsylvania's governor (1923-27, 1931-35); of leukemia; in Manhattan...