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King Gustaf V of Sweden, 90, ordered by his doctor to stay home, missed the annual dinner of the Swedish Academy for the first time in 74 years. Muttered His Majesty: "Hare-shooting is less fatiguing than attending public banquets...
...Huxley, had disclosed that Haiti's problem "is fundamentally one of overpopulation, soil erosion and disease, and is impossible of solution only or mainly by educational methods." "People generally," remarked George Allen dryly, "are impressed by finished jobs." Later on, stocky, practical U.S. Delegate Anne O'Hare McCormick cried in desperation: "What is the precise role of UNESCO? It's becoming more and more vague. We are constantly being called upon to make studies and promote. Promote what? What we need is action...
HANOVER, October 24--The Daily Dartmouth hotshots hare-footed it back to the New Hampshire woods today with only their join cloths and wampum belts left from Saturday's crushing defeat to the CRIMSON...
Putnam, however, vows he won't play the hare to Radcliffe's tortoise...
...Largely Ritualistic." Roper was so sure of his prediction* that he was not even planning to report his running campaign forecast. Said he: "This is not a hare and tortoise race, and neither is it a race between two closely matched thoroughbreds ; it is a very ordinary horse race -a race in which one horse already has a commanding lead . . . My whole inclination is to predict the election of Thomas E. Dewey by a heavy margin and devote my time and efforts to other things...