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...March" proclaimed a blue silk banner at one end of a Statler Hotel ballroom last Tuesday. Underneath it on a raised platform were three long tables, decked with boughs of spruce and fir, and in front of those were row on row of round tables with eight seats apiece. The Massachusetts GOP Finance Committee was holding its $100 a plate dinner, and all the chairs were filled with Republicans celebrating the birth of the Grand New Party...
...noticeable in Canada. The mean annual temperature of Montreal, said Dr. Kimble, has risen from 42°F in the 1880s to 46°F in 1950. Along the bleak natural boundary between Canada's forests and the barren Arctic, the trees are marching northward. Saplings of tamarack, spruce and birch are appearing where none grew before...
...bald Louis Johnson was genial, relaxed and spruce in a brown summer suit and white shoes. The Senators, in the seventh week of the MacArthur hearing, obviously cottoned to ex-Secretary of Defense Johnson. Inquisitors and witness amiably exchanged anecdotes, often dropped into informal use of first names. Johnson ducked questions with easy bluffness that politicians understand. "Do you still beat your wife?" he countered to one loaded question. At times, he talked about himself in the third person with the air of a man watching himself from the wings of history, a faint, fond smile on his lips...
Coming up to the final jump, a 4½-ft. spruce barrier, a pair of long shots, Nickel Coin (40-to-1) and Royal Tan (22-to-1), were neck & neck. Royal Tan crashed into the final hurdle, limped home across the finish line as Nickel Coin breezed to a six-length victory. A poor third: Derrinstown, who threw his rider but was remounted...
Early in 1949 Britain's able Malcolm MacDonald, Commissioner-General for Southeast Asia, brought the federation's hostile racial leaders together in a Communities' Liaison Council. On the council was the influential head of the United Malay National Organization, spruce, bespectacled, British-educated Dato Onn bin Jafaar, 54, once a violent baiter of Chinese. Several months of round-table parleys, plus the mounting Communist threat, converted Dato Onn. He publicly proclaimed: "Malays must accept as full nationals those of other races who are prepared to give their all to the country...