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...players have reached top rank. The three most promising: 29-year-old Peter Leventritt of New York City, made a Life Master in 1943, who won last week's world-championship master pairs; George Rapee, bush-haired son of Radio City Music Hall Conductor Erno Rapee, and a Senior Master, who won the 1944 individual world championship; Pfc. John Crawford of Philadelphia, who, when he was 25, became the youngest Life Master...
...American Contract Bridge League has five tournament ratings: 1) Junior Master (1 to 9 master points); 2) Master (10 to 24); 3) National Master (25 to 149); 4) Senior Master (150 to 299); Life Master (over...
...Roosevelts. Last Sunday the whereabouts of President Roosevelt was undisclosed, but the chances were that he was not at church. When he is home in Hyde Park the President usually attends service at St. James's Episcopal* Church, of which he has been senior warden since 1928. But the special ramp and awning (put up at Presidential expense) at a side door of St. Thomas' in Washington has not been used since Easter 1941. This is not entirely a matter of Presidential choice. The Secret Service sensibly holds that the President's life might be endangered...
...Rebecca Felton of Georgia had been appointed to fill out an unexpired term of two days. Other Caraway firsts: first woman to chairman a Senate committee (Enrolled Bills), first to conduct a Senate committee hearing, first to preside over the Senate, first to serve as Senior Senator from a state...
Most recent, most ambitious Joyce interpreters are Joseph Campbell (former intercollegiate half-miler and now English professor at Sarah Lawrence College) and Henry Morton Robinson (former English instructor at Columbia University, now senior editor of Readers Digest).† They have spent five years "hacking a narrative trail" through Finnegans Wake which was "like going through the heart of darkest Africa...