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...Williamsburg, Va., the A.P.'s Kent Cooper told a newsmen's banquet that it was not that simple: government control of the press would obviously mean political control. The U.S. press would stay free, he said, provided it kept nothing from the people, and kept "defending the right of all to express their views through the printed word...
...them in Mayfair and the West End. Horrid rumors that the whole affair was off circulated among Britain's matchmakers. To see his girl at all, Philip had to slip secretly through a side door of the Palace or arrange clandestine rendezvous through his cousin, the Duchess of Kent. Then, last week, after sounding out his Government and his Dominion Ministers, King George inserted a notice in the Court Circular. "It is with the greatest pleasure," it ran, "that the King and Queen announce the betrothal of their beloved daughter the Princess Elizabeth to Lieut. Philip Mountbatten...
...Henley-on-Thames, the crew of Jesus College, Cambridge, won the big event-the Grand Challenge Cup-in which no U.S. crew was entered. Another race, for the Thames Challenge Cup, went to a U.S. schoolboy crew from Connecticut's Kent School. Kent's brawny crew (average weight: 174 Ibs.), which brought along its own supply of peanut butter and cooking fats, won easily by two lengths from Massachusetts' Tabor Academy...
...Manhattan in sullen silence. Fannie Hurst once advised the critics of her Lonely Parade to "go crawl back into the wall, where you came from." Whit Burnett left garrulous Ilka Chase speechless when he told her that her In Bed We Cry was "written from the groin." Rockwell Kent and James T. Farrell began a celebrated feud on the show. Dorothy Thompson ripped into Author Henry Morgenthau Jr. (Germany Is Our Problem) with such vigor and at such length that the moderator had to reach over the table and grab her by the arms to make her shut...
...yard dashes-D. Cavicke (72), D. Dunlavey (75). H. Thayer (101); 440-yard dash-D. Hamblett (83), A. Ruby (99), J. Wheeler (106) or C. Wharton (110); 880-yard run-J. Edelman (74), F. Gurley (81), T. Withington (107); one-mile run-J. Cogan (73), F. Gurley J. Kent (91), J. Noble (96); two-mile run-W. Lyon (93), W. O'Connor (109), H. Rosenfeld (98), T. Walnut (104); 120-yard high, 220-yard low hurdles-W. Flint (78), G. Hauptfuhrer (86), P. McCormick...