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Before 550 sweltering, fan waving undergraduates and their families, President Conant, in the traditional Baccalaureate Sermon counseled the Class of 1949 that the individual today has a greater chance of making his ideas and influence felt than ever before. His talk, given on Sunday afternoon in Memorial Church, marked the opening event of the two hundred and ninety-eighth commencement week...
King George VI officially turned 53 last week (his real birthday is Dec. 14). Some 1,500 soldiers of His Majesty's Guards were given a special ration of barley sugar, designed to carry the Guardsmen through the rigorous birthday ceremony (see cut), the first full-dress "Trooping the Color" to be held since 1939. Footguardsmen of the Welsh Guards donned scarlet tunics and towering bearskins, to stand at rigid attention. They were joined by plumed horsemen of the Household Cavalry. To take the salute, the King himself, not yet sufficiently recovered from his leg ailment to ride horseback...
...Olney, Md., James Gordon Mac-Arthur, II, son of Playwright Charles MacArthur, 53, and Actress Helen Hayes, 48, and brother of Ingénue Mary Mac-Arthur, 19, was catching up with the rest of the family. He was given a bit part in a strawhat production of The Corn Is Green. His father's prediction: "The little rascal is ham enough so that if he had only one line he'd throw in three...
...Although she is as spry and sparkling-eyed as ever ("I feel as young as a child"), Landowska has given up touring. In the last few years, she has also given up the idea of returning to her once-famed Ecole de Musique Ancienne at picturesque Saint-Leu-La-Forêt near Paris, from which she fled in 1940 before the Nazis took over...
...rules-and drove the shorts to buying to cover their contracts. Brannan had been begging Congress to give him the power to buy or build additional storage facilities. When Congress finally passed such a bill last week, Brannan acted fast. He not only used the powers Congress had just given him, but dusted off some old ones-which he had had all the time-to give the farmers a lot more...