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...Crown Princess Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, 37, and Prince Bernhard, 35: their fourth child, fourth daughter (the others: Beatrix, 9, Irene, 7, Margriet, 4); at Soestdijk Palace, The Netherlands. Weight: 6 Ibs. 10 oz. Daughter's birth rated a 51-gun salute, a quarter-hour's pealing of church bells (a son-who would have been the first male heir to the throne in 62 years-would rate 101 guns, a half-hour's bell-ringing...
...discussed admission of Eire, Albania, Portugal, Trans-Jordan and the Mongolian People's Republic. The overheated committee room, with its entire contents of delegates, tables and sorely tried hopes, seemed to swim in a bluish haze of tobacco smoke. Cuba (Guillermo Belt) dozed off, woke up a quarter-hour later, rosy-cheeked and refreshed. Later, South Africa (Jan Christian Smuts) went to sleep. Declared Liberia (C. Abayomi Cassell): ". . . We will not move the big powers-each of them has its own fish...
...list of accomplishments at 10:30 tonight when he goes before an NBC air audience to face the questions of sportscaster Bill Stern. Here to cover the Boston College-Tennessee fracas for NBC, Stern will pry Harlowian slants and gridiron lowdown from the Cambridge ornithologist in the quarter-hour program...
...that quarter-hour, nothing but beauty was present in Symphony Hall. The pages of the score became under expert hands, an exquisite communication, individual to each member of the orchestra and audience...
British advertisers paid Radio Lux the world's highest radio rates ($625 for a Sunday quarter-hour). While the Germans occupied France, they made Radio Lux a key propaganda mill. SHAEF took over from the Germans. For months, a big question in international radio was: come peace, who would administer Radio...