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Potluck may be a portent that BBC is nerving itself for the plunge into commercial broadcasting. The Labor Party had planned to renew BBC's simon-pure license for another 15 years, but the Tories got in and granted only a six-month extension while they take time to think things over. To solve BBC's chronic money troubles (income is limited to a small annual tax on radio and TV sets, profits from BBC publications, and appropriations by Parliament), the Tories are considering such radical departures as one all-commercial frequency for radio and, possibly, two hours...
...bracelets, her teeth painted an artistic black, she nervously approached the paratroopers, holding out an old laissez passer bearing General de Lattre's picture. When Nguyen Thi Ky explained that she had known a French officer in Hoa Binh in the good old days and would like to renew the acquaintanceship, the paratroopers gave her apples and cookies, sent her off to bring back her people. That night Sergeant Chef Guy Pinceau, who had jumped with his pet poodle stuffed in his leg bag, served a dinner of beefsteak, peas and condensed wine to 2,000 paratroopers...
There is a little extra cigar money waiting in the U.S. for 85-year-old Composer Jean Sibelius. By special proclamation last week, Harry Truman declared that Finnish citizens, e.g., Jean Sibelius, who had been unable to renew their U.S. copyrights during the war (Sibelius' publishers were German), might now do so. As soon as he files the necessary papers, Composer Sibelius stands to collect the back-performance royalties which the Office of Alien Property has been holding...
...Legion bravely compares its 18% decline to the 28% loss suffered in the comparable period after World War I. Organizers say that demobilized men join the veterans' outfits, get married, drift out of contact with their organizations, then renew membership after a few years. They hope the veterans-organization picture will be brighter before...
This year the bellclapper escapade gained national notoriety when the members of the Denver Harvard Club briefed the Denver members of the class of 1955 in the best and most efficient way of pilfering the clapper. Apparently the Colorado alumni were anxious to renew their undergraduate days by hanging the clapper in their own clubhouse if their sons were successful in stealing...