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...best of modern mysteries equal or outrank the run-of-the-rental-shelf "straight" novel in almost every department-plotting, characterization, background. They are novels of emotional conflict, in unusual settings, books that wrestle with the problems of frustration or greed or success. The traditional hole in the victim's head is often added as a sort of casual dividend. Seasonal items...
...Hurlingham Polo Association revised its ratings, upped the handicap of the Duke of Edinburgh from three goals to four (of a possible ten). Significance: only two other British players now outrank the sports-loving prince...
...Defense Secretary would command the armed services directly through the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Though emphatically subordinate to the civilian Defense Secretary and the civilian President, the Joint Chiefs would have the kind of direct operational control over the fighting forces that they have in wartime, would, in effect, outrank the cadres of civilian service secretaries and assistant secretaries who have laid a heavy bureaucratic hand on peacetime operations...
...hand for the first session, his rank as an ex-governor would give him seniority over two other new Democrats: Pennsylvania's ex-Mayor Joseph S. Clark Jr., 55, and Idaho's Frank Church, 32, holding his first elective office. By alphabetical precedence he would also outrank the other ex-governor among new Democrats: Georgia's Herman Talmadge...
With all due respect to alumni and former lettermen, they have seen their share of games as undergraduates, and should not outrank other students in seating preference...