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EDWARD has never given anyone cause to complain. He occasionally sups on kipper and cream of pea soup and, in meet other respects, disdains cat ways. He and his mistress, a head resident, enforce parietals in Coggeshall House. Edward and Jason, a dog in North House, are the only legal pets at Radcliffe...
Gold Hoard. Across India, recruiting centers were jammed with volunteers, ranging from 14-year-old schoolboys to such grizzled veterans as retired General K. M. ("Kipper") Cariappa, 62, who dramatized his impatience at not being called to duty by queuing up alongside other volunteers. Led by Nehru's daughter, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, citizens dug into their hoard of gold ornaments, estimated at a total value of $6 billion, to make donations for the national defense. Maharajahs handed over part of their tax-free state stipends, and workers throughout the subcontinent contributed the equivalent of a day's wages...
...phone rings. The man who answers is lower middle-aged with a lower middle paunch. He looks something like a nearsighted kipper...
...Kipper of the Flame. In North Haven, Conn., after dozing off while cooking a snack, Herbert Herring was smoked out of his house...
...have the lot," he announces grimly one day, and, like Sorel, he sets his cap for the daughter (Heather Sears) of one of the richest men in town. "You know, Susan," he tells her, "you're beautiful," and sighs with carefully rehearsed despair that she is "a dear kipper" -too dear for the working-class likes of him. But when he begins to mumble modestly about his sufferings as a P.W. in Germany, the young lady's upper-crusty young swain (John Westbrook) considers it high time to pull rank. A flick of his Better-Schooled tongue...