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...only woman who sits at the oval luncheon table is Correspondent McCormick, whose first contribution to the Times was a poem for which she got $3.50. Her second, written from Italy in 1921, was a comprehensive account of the rise of fascism and helped win her a job and a start on the career that has raised her to topmost bracket among foreign political correspondents-male or female...
Delivering himself of a few observations on the state of the world, globetrotting Publisher Robert R. ("Bertie") McCormick told the Overseas Press Club in Manhattan that 1) Egypt's favorite drink is called a Suffering Bastard; 2) the only press censorship is in Egypt, and Egypt's high-living King Farouk "needs it"; 3) the family affairs of Rita Hayworth and Ingrid Bergman have caused very little comment, "but as far as I went I couldn't get away from [Tennis Player] Gussie Moron's panties...
...finish ahead of BU's Dick Fitzgerald in the mile, with Dave Cairns third. Crusader George McVey will probably run away with the two-mile as easily as Rhode Island's Bob Black did last week. Charlie Durakis of Harvard can take both hurdles events again, but hurdler Pat McCormick has been sacrificed to a Law School exam...
...Paris, Delhi, London, Frankfurt and Ottawa, Chicago Tribune foreign correspondents last week were sporting dazzling red, white & blue hand-painted neckties. They displayed a picture of the Tribune Tower, complete to the Stars & Stripes flying from the top. The ties were gifts from Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick, who wore one himself on his recent round-the-world junket (TIME, March 20); and thereby got the idea that his correspondents should also be suitably identified...
...dash--won by Carter; 2, Thayer. Time--22.4 sec. 440-yard run--won by Thayer; 2, Grutzner. Time--50.8 sec. 880-yard run--won by Berman; 3, Downey. Time--2:00.8 One-mile run--2, Cairns. Two-mile run--3, Paker. 120-yard high hurdles--won by Durakis; 2, McCormick. Time--15.9 sec. 220-yard low hurdles--won by Durakis; 2, McCormick. Time--25.4 sec. Mile relay--won by Harvard (Tsavarias, Grutzner, McGrath, Walsh). Time...