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...America to fight a patent monopoly suit (for the past six years fought mostly with press releases) brought against RCA by Zenith Radio Corp. Rusty, perhaps, but always game, Attorney Stevenson filed a petition seeking a delay of the trial with the U.S. Supreme Court, whose Associate Justice Sherman Minton at week's end turned Stevenson's brief down cold, also denied Stevenson's request for a hearing...
Marriage Revealed. Barbara Billingsley, 18, daughter of Manhattan Saloonkeeper Sherman (Stork Club) Billingsley; and John Rogers Christoffers, 28, commercial photographer; in Folkston, Ga., on Nov. 29, after her father had reported her as a missing person...
...purpose of the Letters column is the same today as when we began it in 1924: to bring you extra items of interest about the news you read in TIME. For example, in the cover story on Kentucky's Senator John Sherman Cooper (TIME, July 5), we used the term "whittledycut" and defined it as meaning a real fine horse race. This created a lively ruckus in Kentucky and elsewhere, with readers writing in to challenge the definition (it was correct); others commented on folk slang in general and enclosed clippings from newspapers about TIME'S mention...
Allen's successor in India was not named last week. Among those mentioned speculatively for the post was Kentucky's defeated Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper...
...Radcliffe Administration, which does not normally give honorary degrees, decided to award citations to distinguished alumnae on this special occasion. But Mildred P. Sherman, Dean of College Relations and Director of the Anniversary Celebration, would neither confirm nor deny the names of the recipients. Last night, however, Mrs. Hull said that she would definitely receive a citation...