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Meanwhile, Elizabeth bestowed her first titles of the reign, including four peerages, five baronetcies, 60 knighthoods. Among those elevated: Movie Director Carol (The Third Man) Reed and Novelist Compton (Tight Little Island) Mackenzie, knighthoods. A pretty planter's wife in Malaya, Mrs. Patricia Webber, who has twice been ambushed by Red guerrillas only to escape, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for "great courage, loyalty and cheerfulness under very adverse conditions...
...twin rescue jobs which followed will be long remembered among New England mariners. A Coast Guard boatswain's mate named Bernard Webber lashed himself to the wheel of a 36-ft. open power lifeboat and went out to the Pendleton. Eight men had been on the Pendleton's bow; all were lost. But in the light of flares, Webber and his lifeboat snatched 32 seamen on her stern from certain death. A 33rd was drowned...
...Houser, the team will head for Mount Washington, N. H. for the Yale and Dartmouth slalom meets on April 2 and 15. Team members will compete in the Webber Cup downhill race Saturday...
Glenn G. Munn of Manhattan's Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis seemed bullish. Said he: "Time is running out on this stock market [down] cycle." On the other hand, he was also bearish: "Business may be in a slow-motion rollover into an oldfashioned, spiraling, chain-reaction decline." However, investors should also remember that "we are in ... the Treasury-Keynesian-Keyserling cycle. That means Government intervention-cheating the silly down-cycle from its accustomed brutal innings...
...Gabler and Emmons have performed creditably, the latter hurling a three-run, eight-hit job against the Jayvees. Roy Meears has been valuable as a reliefer against B.U. and Milton, and should merit a starting assignment soon, perhaps against Governor Dummer Academy this afternoon at South Byfield. Although Pete Webber is a good prospect, he is overweight (over 200) and this has affected his control. Berg needs effective pitchers--"When you have games every other day and you can't count on your regular pitchers, it puts you in a hole." Relliy, a pitcher at Roxbury, will probably be pressed...