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KENNETH B. ROLLINS Leesburg...
...transmitting tower put up on his Leesburg, Va. farm just behind the chicken coop, this week returned to the radio & television faithful the freckled face and barefoot voice of Arthur Godfrey, in the pink, but still on crutches after his celebrated Boston hip operation...
...Hasty Pudding Theatricals yesterday announced the election of Fitzhugh L. Brown '54 of Leesburg, Va., and Eliot House as chairman, and Cecil Wylde '54 of Dover, Mass., and Leverett House as vice-chairman. Competition for book, music, and lyrics for its 106th production in December is now open...
...scattering of honorary degrees was just about done, and by last week the nation could boast of some 1,500 new doctors. A good showing was made by the generals, e.g., Clay, Hershey and Bradley, but this year Old Favorite George C. Marshall, in retirement on his farm in Leesburg, Va., was notable by his absence. Alltime Champion Herbert Hoover added only one more to his stock of 74 degrees. But Bernard Baruch ("I've given up receiving awards in public. I don't know how many I have") got none at all, and last year...
...friends gave testimony. To illustrate, more than one of them recalled a Washington banquet for General George Marshall at which Ambassador Joseph C. Grew served as toastmaster. Amid one burst of emotional oratory, Grew's tongue slipped: General Marshall, he said, wanted nothing more than to retire to Leesburg with Mrs. Eisenhower. Flustered, as the room rang with laughter, the ambassador halted to apologize "to the general." Smiled Mamie: "Which general...