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...been "greatly devoted to feeling like 30 cents." His first feeling of being below par interrupted the ceremony in which, 79 years ago, the infant Wodehouse was named Pelham Grenville. Said he: "I remember protesting vigorously, but to no avail." His longest bout with misfortune came in 1940 when Plum, as he has been called since schooldays, was arrested by the Nazi army in his home at Le Touquet on the French side of the English Channel. The Nazis whisked him from jail to jail for 49 weeks, then released...
Second place in the Ivy League and the New England championship are two of the plums that go to the winner of the Harvard-Yale lacrosse game here tomorrow afternoon. But the juiciest plum, of course, is simply a victory over Yale. And it won't be easy...
Republicans inevitably roared in their wrath. Cried Michigan's George Meader: "When judicial office becomes a public grant, it attracts those who seek a political plum rather than those who aspire to the heights of the legal profession." Ohio's William McCulloch noted that the 70 new judgeships, plus 19 vacancies, add up to 89 judges whom President Kennedy could appoint in his early months in office-more than Franklin Roosevelt or Harry Truman had appointed in their first four years...
...prestige, Russia in recent months has been in a position to choose among several profitable cold-war theaters: Cuba, the Congo, Berlin. With such a profusion of attractive targets, why had Nikita Khrushchev chosen to push his attack hardest in an obscure piece of Asian jungle? Dangling like a plum from Asia's heartland, Laos borders on four non-Communist nations-Cambodia, Burma, Thailand and South Viet Nam. With the Laotians little interested in defending themselves and the U.S. half a world away, the temptation was irresistible-particularly if it could be had on the cheap. Victory in Laos...
...BALLAD OF A SOLD-acey-Zarubin plum, contintender if treacly treatment an youngsters during the led suffering of the last worth seeing. Evenings...