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...Germans sing a lot, especially with their beer. Marching to the soccer field, they thunder out "Heute gehört tins Deutschland, Morgen die ganze Welt" ("Today we have Germany, tomorrow the world"). Marching back, they sing their sad, old soldier favorite, "Ich hatt' einen Kameraden" ("I had a comrade"). Italians seem to like to listen rather than sing, are always buying more records (mainly operatic) for their phonographs...
...clerk, bewigged and begowned Sir Gilbert Campion, rose and pointed silently at National Liberal George Lambert, M.P. since 1891. Lambert then proposed Colonel the Rt. Hon. Douglas Clifton Brown, an Old Etonian, veteran of the First Dragoon Guards and the Northumberland Hussar Yeomanry, and Deputy Speaker since 1938. Smart aleck Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid, a maverick Conservative who is regarded as a noisy nuisance by his own party, maladroitly interrupted the proceedings: he said that he did not object to Brown personally, but did object to his being thrust on the House by the Conservatives. Loud cries of "Rubbish...
...Rt. Rev. G. (for George) Ashton Oldham, Episcopal Bishop of Albany, roundly denied the importance of lipstick and nail polish to keep up U.S. morale. "God help this country," cried he in a Lenten sermon, "if we have to depend on those things for morale." Promptly from Hollywood came red-white-&-blue protests: How would the Bishop of Albany like to give up shaving? "I am willing to stop shaving," he countered, "if they are willing to give up cosmetics." That appeared unlikely...
Captain the Rt. Hon. Edward Algernon Fitzroy was 138th Speaker in a line dating back to 1377; none had died in office since 1789, when Charles Cornwall took the last of the great draughts of porter with which he was "wont to relieve the weariness of his office...
...Washington and Lee University President Dr. Francis P. Gaines; Virginia's Rt. Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, president of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America; onetime NBC President Merlin H. Aylesworth; American Legion Auxiliary national President Ruth H. Mathebat; and Mrs. Du Pont. They gave the companion $1,000 award, for the radio station best serving its community and the nation, to General Electric's short-wave station KGEI of San Francisco...