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...sure that the Duchess of Kent, sister-in-law of King George VI, would get a proper cup of tea at the matinee, the management of London's Scala Theater scurried to a theatrical costumer, laid out $28 to rent a solid gold tea service for the afternoon. Next day, Mayfair gossip that the duchess would announce her engagement to handsome Anthony Eden turned out to be far from solid. Eden's secretary told the Sunday Pictorial: "Not a shred of truth in the rumor...
Harvard's share is one of the largest under the will, equaling the amounts left to the St. Paul's, Groton, and Kent schools. A bequest also was left to Yale--one-half the size of Harvard...
...recognize Communist China and get out of Korea. Among the sponsors were the same tired names the Communists use over & over, in slightly different combinations, for all their fronts: Singer Paul Robeson; Ben Gold, president of the International Fur Workers; Author Howard Fast (see below); Artist Rockwell Kent. There was one other useful name and a distinguished one: Author Thomas Mann...
...like any other buseson the outside. But their mechanical innards were different. Instead of running on gasoline, they ran on propane gas, a petroleum distillate. They were the first of a new fleet of 500 ordered by Chicago's Transit Authority from Twin Coach Co. of Kent, Ohio. The fleet, largest of its kind in the U.S., marked the fast progress of the propane-propelled revolution in engine fuels...
...Kent and Holmes clubs won their semifinal arguments in December. Each club consists of eight men, two of whom deliver the argument in each competition...