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Paradoxical plenty confronts Varsity swimming Coach Hal Ulen these days as he watches his men plowing up and down Indoor Athletic Building swimming pool lanes in preparation for the opening meet a week from Saturday with the Greenwood A. C. Particular events are very strong, and one of them boasts a pair of national champs who will race each other to the wire every time, but many of the others are still in the misty spray of final selection. With Ted Norris, national long distance titleholder, and Jerry Gorman, Eastern Intercollegiate 440 yd. Champion, this half-mile grind will provide...
Herbert Morrison, the Labor Government's man-of-all-work, had slipped another notch politically, but he would still have plenty to do. He will continue as general coordinator in matters other than economic. He will relieve aging Arthur Greenwood of his duties. The chief one is chairmanship of the legislative committee, which sorts out in order of priority all the bills proposed by various departments...
...Arthur Greenwood's resignation was long overdue. Attlee is expected to do more firing soon. Pink old Lord Addison, whose white hair looks like the blob of whipped cream on a strawberry sundae, is expected to be dumped from his Commonwealth relations job. A. V. Alexander may be shifted to make way for a more vigorous man in the Defense Ministry...
...Some top Laborites would also be pinched. Ernest Bevin, Herbert Morrison and Arthur Greenwood are heavy cigaret smokers. Clement Attlee smokes a pipe. Sir Stafford Cripps, despite his dietary austerity, likes a pipe, a cigaret or a cigar...
Paper Hat. The bell saved Greenwood. As Big Ben boomed midnight he moved an end to debate and a call to vote. Bedlam broke again. It was almost a minute before he could be heard. Then Tory Sir Gifford Fox raised a parliamentary pinpoint, contended that Greenwood was out of order because his motion was made after, not exactly at, 12 o'clock as procedure stipulates. Sir Gifford himself was hoisted on a point of procedure. He did not have on a hat-and regulations call for a member to be "sitting and covered" when raising a point...