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When his eighth-grade nephew came home and announced that his class had produced three plays in one day, a young Boston adman and magazine publisher named A. S. Burack looked into the matter, found that 1) few good plays were written for children, 2) few schools could pay commercial royalties (averaging $5 a performance) for professional plays, 3) consequently most schools had to produce old chestnuts or the amateurish writings of pedagogues...
Rumania's loudest yelp came from Premier Ion ("Red Dog") Antonescu's nephew Mihai, who is Acting Foreign Minister. "During the last year," he said, "northern Transylvania [the part Hitler gave to Hungary], cradle of our country, was submitted to a regime of oppression and humiliation. . . . Its population has been jeered and tortured, its churches destroyed. Its land was taken away from the peasants. . . . We have the duty . . . to declare that such a state of affairs can no longer continue...
...supported the Home Minister. One Member even asked whether the Mirror was partly owned by William Randolph Hearst. (Since Lord Rothermere, brother of Lord Northcliffe, gave up control in 1931, the Mirror's ownership has not been a matter of public record, but tall, energetic Cecil Harmsworth King, nephew of Lord Northcliffe, is generally supposed to control it. Hearst...
...Nephew of Ambassador...
...Nephew of the former French ambassador, and prize protege of Coach Lamar, Bullitt without a falter cleaned up in the trial elimination series for the New England championship and entered the open competition. Defeating three local boys from the Boston area and a sergeant from Fort Devens, he climbed to the finals where he faced Jimmy Sauer, Golden Gloves champ in the 135 pound department who was considered one of the outstanding amateurs of the year...