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...local race track, five-and-six has become a national obsession in Venezuela. More than 1,500,000 bolivars ($450,000) are wagered every week. To play five-and-six, the hopeful buy forms at four bolivars each, fill in the names of the six horses they select to win in the six races held every Saturday at the Hipôdromo, and wait for the miracle to strike. If the six horses win, the successful picker may get or share with other winners as much as 400,000 bolivars; if five win, he gets a smaller amount...
Bound personnel-wise to Princeton if not financially or administratively, the Institute for Advanced Studies offers an opportunity for "post-postgraduate" work to a select group of 30-odd top U. S. scholars. These men freely elect their mentors from a faculty of 16 in an environment stripped of lectures, examinations degrees. Figures such as Albert Einstein lend the stature of their thought. But "the most important thing that can come out of the Institute," wrote then director Frank Aydelotte in 1943, "is not the absolute contribution of an Einstein, great as it may be, so much as the general...
...most important group which went abroad was the Select Committee on Foreign Aid, headed by Massachusetts' Christian Herter. After six weeks of assessing Western Europe's misery, the committee returned last week. It had exhibited congressional statesmanship at its highest. Committee members had talked to heads of governments, opposition political parties, organized labor leaders, workers, farmers, industrialists. They brought back trunkloads of data and notebooks crammed with impressions...
...just what she wants for setting up housekeeping, Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced last week. He got the tip from 64-year-old Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, wife of the former Governor General and a relative, by both blood and marriage, of the bride.* Princess Alice herself will select the silver, which will then be inscribed with Canada's best wishes...
Most of Boston's 2,550,000 people are apt to regard the city's Social Register as a catalogue of the select, and nothing but the select. But to the few dozen "First Families," the Register's 8,000 names are far too many. Some have refused to let their names be used; one, who called the Register a "damned telephone book," tears each year's edition in half and sends it back...