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...Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
...back as November, Doris Hall, 13 and a big girl for her age, went into training. She persuaded her teacher to excuse her from some of her routine school-work in the eighth grade (she still got straight As), and she began thumbing through Webster's Collegiate Dictionary at the rate of 50 pages a day. When she had finished the dictionary once, she started all over again, making long lists of words she was still not sure of. Then, just to make certain, she began combing Mademoiselle, the Atlantic Monthly, TIME and The New Yorker for unusual words...
...That Ain't Good (Ben Webster; Decca). The onetime Ellington saxophonist gives a well-padded version of one of the Duke's best...
...Russell combined the oratorical abilities of Daniel Webster, William Jennings Bryan and Franklin Roosevelt, he still would have little chance of being the next President of the U.S. He is working to build up the South's old veto power, but there are other vetoes in the Democratic Party. Truman and his friends hold one, and they would almost certainly exercise it against the candidate of the anti-Truman Southern bloc. Truman's veto is also the greatest hazard facing Kefauver's nomination. Organized labor holds another veto, recognized most spectacularly in the famous order, "Clear Everything...
...Appointment of the week: John Tyler Caldwell, 40, to succeed Lewis Webster Jones, new president of Rutgers, as president of the University of Arkansas. A Princeton Ph.D. in Politics, Caldwell has been president of Alabama College for Women since...