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...Congressmen during their first months in office are better seen than heard. Neophyte British M.P.s, on the other hand, are expected to create something of a stir when they rise to make their maiden speech in Parliament. Last week 34-year-old Ron Ledger, newly elected Labor Member for Romford, devoted his maiden speech to a plea for more free nurseries. To give his argument force, he told the story of a certain renegade father and of a mother, pregnant and destitute, who was forced to abandon her three children to the care of an orphanage. "Thirteen years later," said...
Bulldog Breed. In Romford, England, Queenie Swain, eliminated in the finals of a beauty contest, was fined ?2 for biting Rosina Jones, the winner...
FRANCIS GILROY ROMFORD...
Publisher William B. Ziff, amateur aviation enthusiast and determined author (The Gentlemen Talk of Peace), is the man behind the Romford plan. Explains Ziff: "My son went to an ordinary prep school, but his real education was picked up in our home-meeting the industrialists, statesmen, journalists and educators who are my friends." Ziff wanted to see a school with "the advantages of a first-class salon...
...Romford's headmaster-to-be, Joseph Stetson, a teacher of science in Washington's Landon School, thought the notion "a little leftist" at first, but came around fast when he saw the kind of leaders who would preside at Romford's salons. Among them: Utah's Senator Elbert Thomas, Kaiser-Frazer's Joseph Frazer, Sportswriter Grantland Rice, Scientist Vannevar Bush, ex-Supreme Court Justice James McReynolds, Connecticut's Governor Raymond Baldwin, China's U.N. Delegate Quo Taichi...