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...Douglas' career in public service began one night in 1922, in the roistering, hillside copper-mining town of Jerome (Ariz.), when a group of citizens sought out a begrimed, grinning mucker and asked him to run for the state legislature on the Democratic ticket. Since then, Lewis W. (for Williams) Douglas, 52, has been led far afield from his chosen career in mining. Last week, President Truman called him from the presidency of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York to be United States Ambassador to England. He will succeed North Carolina's O. Max Gardner...
This week three other Pennsylvania trains were wrecked on a single night. At Freeport, Pa., Engineer W. T. Nixon was killed when his locomotive rammed a standing freight. At Belvidere, N.J., three were injured in a similar crash. And just east of the now infamous Bennington curve, three cars of an eastbound freight jumped the tracks...
...sales emphasis was on flowers. As usual, Philadelphia's W. Atlee Burpee Co., biggest mail-order seed house in the world (1946 gross: $5 million), made the biggest noise. It sent out three million catalogues to push the latest products of its California farm. Items: a yellow-pink snapdragon billed as the "first alldouble snapdragon ever grown from seed" and the "most sensational new flower for 1947"; a pink "alldouble" petunia called the "Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower" ($2 a packet...
PLAYS AND POEMS (1,218 pp.)-W. S. Gilbert-Random House...
Like most of these brilliant irreverents and fantasists, W. S. Gilbert was a diehard conservative by conviction, a palace-revolutionary by temperament. When Gilbert heard that suffragettes had chained themselves to the railings in Downing Street, crying "Votes for Women!" he barked: "I shall chain myself to the railings outside Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital and yell 'Beds for Men!' " Gilbert's tributes to Queen and Country were usually proffered on the end of a spear. He satirized royalty, the peerage, the law, the clergy, bureaucrats, the Army & Navy...