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Died. Dame** May Whitty, 82, peppery, untiring stage-&-screen actress, wife of onetime Matinee Idol Ben Webster, mother of Shakespearean Actress-Director Margaret Webster; in Hollywood. She made her name in England in the '80s with Richard Mansfield, in the U.S. with the Sir Henry Irving-Ellen Terry company in 1895. In later years she turned to the cinema, made an immediate hit in Hollywood's Night Must Fall, another in Britain's The Lady Vanishes...
...Webster," the famed frog of Mark Twain's story, who could "get over more ground at one straddle than any animal of his breed you ever see," lost to another freshly caught frog when the rival owner filled Dan'l full of quail shot "pretty near up to his chin...
...Clergy. In his will, Stephen Girard declared that "no ecclesiastic, missionary, or minister of any sect whatsoever" be allowed within the college wall. His next of kin, hoping to break the will on the basis of the anticlerical clause, once hired Daniel Webster to argue the case. Webster lost...
...admirers point out that he is only six weeks older than Harry Truman. They feel that he is one of the nation's few great Senators in the tradition of Borah, Norris, Daniel Webster and Clay; that he combines international vision with hardheaded common sense; that he has had the courage to admit a big mistake and to put his country above politics; that he is an American statesman known and respected abroad, the only G.O.P. candidate with wide experience in international affairs at a time when international affairs are paramount...
...founders of a Young Republican club which met every noon at Coady's Drugstore. They put Joe up for the state legislature. They rang doorbells for him, G. K. Webster backed...