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...country planning. A shrewd legal brain and a strong Tory figure, he was offered the job of Minister of Labor, but turned it down. The re ported reason: the Home Secretary ship is less of a hot spot, offers more of a political future. He is married to Actor Rex Harrison's sister...
Former heavyweight champion Ezzard Charles made the first big jump up the comeback trail last night with a technical knockout over 23-year-old Rex Layne of Salt Lake City in 2:32 of the 11th round...
...Rome. Some rhymes, they found, are at least as old as the city of Rome. Horace described little children playing Rex erit qul recte faciet-the first version of "I'm the king of the castle." Petronius heard a small boy say Bucca, bucca, quot sunt hie?, which later became "Buck she, buck she, buck / How many fingers do I hold up?" At least one rhyme in nine, say the Opies, was known in the time of Charles I; a good half are at least 200 years...
...government news service soon became an added handicap, and by 1926, Sir Roderick was forced to sell a controlling interest in the agency to Britain's provincial papers. Its troubles increased as A.P. Boss Kent Cooper expanded his international service and broke up the cartel run by "Reuters Rex," Havas (the French agency) and Wolff (German), which had divided up the world...
...four home runs, over the American League, 8-3; in Detroit. ¶British Miler Roger Bannister, Britain's Amateur Athletic Association championship, with his best time ever, and best in the world this year: 4:07.8; in London. ¶Heavyweight Rocky Marciano, his 36th straight victory, over clumsy Rex Layne, with a crushing sixth-round knockout; in New York. Marciano's showing put him in line to take on the winner of September's heavyweight championship fight between Ezzard Charles and Joe Louis. ¶Tony Trabert, the National clay court tennis title, in an upset over...