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Democrats of Cedar Falls, Iowa were sorely perplexed. Through a mixup, their printed instructions on how to use the newly-installed voting machines read simply: "Pull the Republican lever." Republicans in one Waterloo, Iowa precinct were equally baffled. Election judges the night before had inadvertently left a sign hanging on the Republican county ticket lever: "Do not touch...
...picture mixup, TIME's apologies to 45-year-old U. S. Citizen Charles G.-Grey, now living in France, who in World War I flew for the French, then for the U. S. as a member of 213th pursuit squadron, won the Distinguished Service Cross. Sympathetic with the international policies of the British and French Governments as opposed to the Nazi regime, Businessman Charles G. Grey), who still flies his own plane, is not to be confused with 64-year-old onetime British Editor (he resigned last year) Charles Grey Grey. TIME wrote about Editor Grey, ran a picture...
...lean, precise Ed Murrow in London, little INS-Man Thomas Grandin (who looks like Goebbels) in Paris, dignified William L. Shirer (who looks like H. V. Kaltenborn) in Berlin. The indefatigable Kaltenborn himself, CBS's one-man backfield during the Czech crisis, was in Europe when the current mixup broke out broadcast from London at 1:30 p.m. there on Wednesday, jumped a Clipper, broadcast from Manhattan at 6:30 next night. To spell Kaltenborn, CBS fortnight ago hired grey, smart ex-Timesstar Elmer Davis...
...period on a mixup in back of the Crimson net, Vint Freedley froze the puck against the beards and Yale was awarded a penalty shot. Hofenseman kite of the Elis put the shot past Freedley, but he went over the line and the score was ruled...
...Neutrality Act well-meaning but sufficiently cockeyed for experts to agree that its legal meshes would hamper China greatly, Japan scarcely at all; 2) Japan saw the Soviet war machine suddenly weakened by Stalin's shooting of its ablest commanders; 3) the Spanish Civil War and Mediterranean mixup have so tangled Great Britain that Japan does not fear today Far East intervention by the "Mistress of the Seas...