Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chief winner in the election: Governor Fielding L. Wright, a middle-of-the-road politician, who was easily nominated for his first full term...
...most impressive victory of the day and made himself the favorite for the final with a 3:32 clocking in the first heat. John Brewer, who trailed Queeny, also qualified, since there were only two heats. The winner of the other trial, John Bisbee, and his runner-up, L. W. Barroll, round out the novice singles finalists...
...there were Communists among the demonstrators. So what? Is it surprising that the Communists, who are always the first, but by no means the only victims of fascism and who have always taken pride in their militant anti-fascism should participate in a demonstration against a fascist like Gerald L. K. Smith? It is alarming, as well as more than a little revolting, to see Harvard students diverted from the real issue at hand by the game which seems to have become the new national pastime--"I Spy--a Red!" Are we to seek out the Communist position...
...year-old, Mrs. Flora MacLeod, 28th chieftain of the MacLeod clan, who had come all the way from Scotland's Isle of Skye for the doings. Dressed in tribal tartan, the MacLeod of MacLeods watched the clansmen in sword dances, Highland flings. With another kilted chieftain, Premier Angus L. Macdonald, she listened to speeches in Gaelic and stamped time to shrill renditions (including Mrs. MacLeod's March, written especially for the occasion) by the Cape Breton Highlander's Pipe Band. Said she: "It is wonderful to be in a place as Scottish as Cape Breton...
Happy Ending. Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford, the feuding owners of United Artists, got together in a movie cutting room and made peace. U.A.'s income-largely because of their feuding-had reportedly slumped to $192,000 last year. They compromised on a new president, Gradwell L. Sears, who has been U.A.'s vice president since 1941. David 0. Selznick, who had been in at the start of the feud (TIME, Dec. 23), had sold out his U.A. share...