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Details of the meeting, which has the approval of the Counsellor for Veterans' Office, are being arranged by a committee under the chairmanship of John C. Harper '46. Other members are Matthew J. Cullen '45, Robert Palmer NROTC, Paul Hellmuth 2L, Irving Kent 2L, John Mahoney 3L, Richard Weissman 2L, and Charles Porter 2L. Replies are expected from national headquarters of the various groups within the next two weeks, and further plans will be announced as they are formulated...
...attitude of the A.P. might make a silent giant of this country when every other giant and pigmy in the world is broadcasting its own interpretation of American news events and policies." More than one editor complained of being fed up with the pontifical attitudes of A.P.'s Kent Cooper and U.P.'s Hugh Baillie. Even the trade magazine Editor & Publisher, which usually goes along with anything the powerful A.P. or U.P. does, urged them to think it over again...
Whether in London or at Chartwell, his country place in Kent, he stayed in bed until noon. From 11 o'clock on, wrapped in a Chinese dressing gown, he received callers at his bedside. Across his broad belly would be a bed table, on which he rested his rubber-padded elbows; next to his bed, the invariable telephones, cigars, watches, pens and pencils...
...Dentists went on strike in Surrey, Sussex, Kent and Hampshire. They wanted higher health-insurance payments (from $25.50 to $42) for installing false teeth...
...Paul, Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, whose flag secretary Stassen had been, described him to a homecoming crowd: "A great naval officer, a great Governor, fit for any job you want to give him." Archconservative columnist Frank R. Kent wrote: "If there is a better Republican available no one has pointed him out." Even Columnist Mark Sullivan, who usually looks with distrust on men with advanced views like Harold Stassen's, praised his "boldness...