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...Elizabeth II's "public relations are too often bungled," London's Sunday Express set aside chauvinism, nominated an American "expert" for the job of handling palace public relations. The Express' choice: suave expatriate Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., K.B.E., "a good mixer, a tireless getter-about and smoother-out of trouble...
...newcomers to rowing, has pushed his crew to a 6: 51 time trial and although the conditions were perfect the time is nonetheless remarkable. Even more encouraging to Wilde is the fact that the freshmen seem to improve every time they are on the water. Their blade handling looks smoother and they are getting stronger...
...hand-bell looks like an ordinary bell, but its clapper is covered with leather to produce a smoother tone. The ringer holds the bell by a stiff leather thong, which Taylor compared to a baseball...
...have flown on trunk (under 1,000 mile) routes, the turboprop planes have proved tough competition for piston-engined U.S. transports. Their four 1,400-h.p. Rolls Royce jet engines, hooked to propellers, not only make them about 35 m.p.h. faster than competing Convairs, but also much quieter and smoother riding. (British European Airways passenger traffic has gone up about 26% since switching to Viscounts from DC-35 and Vikings.) Instead of expensive high-octane gas, they fly on cheap kerosene, are easier to operate and maintain since the engines have fewer moving parts. At only 30% of capacity...
Yale has thus become the first of the Big Three after Harvard to implement recommendations of the Blackmer Report, published in January 1953. The report offered plans to make smoother the transition from secondary school college, and seven-year program for the "superior student...