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Only mildly sensational among these Cabinet shifts made as the Prime Minister prepared to go before the reassembled House of Commons this week, was the giving of a post to "Ruthless" Sir John Anderson who, when Governor of Bengal, put the fear of the Raj into its notorious political thugs and terrorists. Drastic Sir John was given a velvet Cabinet sinecure, Lord Privy Seal, but is supposed to have been put in to ginger up, by his personal influence, Sir Thomas Inskip. the somnolent Minister for the Co-Ordination of Defense...
Since the switch of Joseph E. Davies from Moscow to Brussels last June, the post of U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union has not been filled. Last week it appeared that the Soviet post of Ambassador to Washington would soon be vacated also, leaving both the U. S. and the Soviet Union without full diplomatic representation in each other's capitals. On leave in Moscow, able Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky, the Soviet Union's first Ambassador to the U. S., disclosed that he has requested a post nearer to Moscow, possibly one in the Soviet Union itself...
...their favorite teams. They knew what to expect from a team that used the Notre Dame system, what to expect from a team that used the Warner system. But the universal practice of scouting has changed all that. Today no major college sticks to either of these famed post-War standard brands of play. Each coach teaches his own version of the Notre Dame or the Warner-or a cross-breeding of both-varying his attack to suit the talents of his players and to upset the calculations of his opponents. Although tackling and blocking still win most football games...
Died. Lascelles Abercrombie, 57, British poet (Interludes and Poems, Emblems of Love) and Oxford don who in 1930 was proposed for the post of Poet Laureate; in London...
...turning in his resignation. "I feel," said he, "that the best interests of the bank may be prejudiced by my serving as president. . . ." When judgments of $736,485 were returned against him in the Government steel case last March, he was granted a 60-day stay provided he post $800,000 bond. He failed to post it - presumably because he could not raise the money - and the court started attaching his assets in August. Last week Herbert made a date for November 10 to list his assets before a referee in bankruptcy, turned management of the bank over...