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Winant in London. At Bristol airport, when Winant arrived, he was supposed to be welcomed by the Duke of Kent, but the Duke had not yet appeared. Winant obligingly climbed back in his plane, to keep from embarrassing the Duke. As Ambassador to the knee-breeched Court, Winant is unworldly and unkempt as ever. He arrived with one grey suit, which promptly fell into baggy-kneed disrepair. His conversations are brief sentences between long, groping pauses, long minutes of staring at the floor...
...elected Robert G. Neiley '43 as its new President. Also chosen were Theodore L. Squier '43 as vice-president, Henry W. Monroe '43 as treasurer, and Alvin W. Ruml '45 as secretary. Other members of the executive board are Rolland D. Thompson '43, William E. Robinson '43, S. Leonard Kent '43, and Robert F. Keaby...
Only thrice before in the 1,345 years since Augustine landed in Kent has an Archbishop of Canterbury left office before death relieved him. But 77-year-old Cosmo Cantuar, as the Archbishop signs him self (Cantuar: abbreviation for Cantuarium, Latin for Canterbury), felt he had good cause...
Vaguer was his answer to a more crucial question: What about Congress, which is not subject to censorship? Censor Price classified as "official" the Congressional Record and committee proceedings, but warned against word-of-mouth information from individual Congressmen. (Columnist Frank Kent has suggested that Congressmen's immunity to censorship may put them back into the news spotlight as they have not been for many years...
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Scene 3, Act 3 (Tenor Jan Peerce, Baritone Arthur Kent, with chorus and orchestra conducted by Wilfred Pelletier; Victor; 4 sides). With gutbusting aplomb, the Metropolitan Opera's newest tenor handles the death soliloquies of Lucia's hero...