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...Thomas Edmund Dewey, reminded voters he was just a country boy at heart by buying the place where he has weekended for two years - a 300-acre farm near Pawling in Dutchess County, New York. GOP-Hopeful Dewey thus became, like his 35-mile-away neighbor, Franklin Roosevelt, a titular constituent of GOP-Hopeful Hamilton Fish. Dewey farm facts: price, $30,300 ($3,000 down); a 175-year-old farmhouse, with front porch suitable for campaign purposes; two tenant houses, 70 head of cattle...
Commandant. Better and more broadly than perhaps ever before, Britain's Queen represents Britain's womanhood. Titular commandant of the women's fighting services, last week Elizabeth graciously accepted the presidency of WVS, putting her on top of the female nonfighting services. She was already a typical British wife. The King was in uniform (Marshal of the Royal Air Force) and she no longer accompanied him wherever he went. She had her own visiting, inspecting, encouraging jobs to do. On a 24-hour schedule, from which future appointments had been dropped, she simply went where she thought...
...Chairman of the Board) and yachted about for health with his society-conscious wife. Last week he retired. Since his nephew Tommy Manville is an incorrigible playboy and his son Edward Jr. is still a worker in the ranks, no one by the name of Manville now has a titular post in the firm...
...wear to classes. Professors wear academic gowns, but by an unwritten rule no woman has so appeared in the University's halls. Last week the University authorities had not yet unraveled this question, but Miss Garrod gave them a hint by pointing out that a woman holding a titular Cambridge degree may wear a gown on "appropriate occasions...
...pope who was, above all else, a statesman. Pacelli was the obvious choice. His natural flair for diplomacy, coupled with the vast amount of training in practical politics that a cardinal must undergo, made him the best choice for the papacy at this particular hour. Besides holding the titular Archbishopric of Sardis, he was Papal Regent, as well as Secretary of State to the Holy See. In the last capacity especially he had served his church well...