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Presidential press conferences are usually a bore. What happens is that a group of 100 or more reporters gather in the White House press room, stand around chatting with each other until thoroughly exhausted. Thus reduced to a state of total psychic subservience, they are ushered into Franklin Roosevelt's private sanctum. Here the President, comfortably tucked in under a massive desk and surrounded by a background of secretaries and Secret Service men, sits flourishing his cigaret holder. The correspondents gather closely around the front of the desk trying politely to look as though all this were a marvel...
...Harvard-Yale relay was easily the high spot of the evening, the crowd reaching its highest emotional pitch (excluding the one-minute silence for founder George V. Brown) when Lightbody bore down upon and passed Gardner Millet in the last stretch of the dramatic race...
...sober obituary page carried accounts of two famed men who had died the day before, Fairfax Harrison, onetime president of the Southern Railway, and Engineer Dexter Parshall Cooper, father of Passamaquoddy's tidal-harnessing project. Each was illustrated with a picture. Unfortunately, the purported likeness of Mr. Harrison bore the easily recognizable features of John Jeremiah Pelley, president of the Association of American Railroads, the picture of Mr. Cooper the features of famed Army engineer Lieut. Colonel Philip Bracken Fleming, now stationed at St. Paul-both very much alive. To all concerned the Times wrote apologies, except the Associated...
...stiffest crisis the stores had to meet. They did the job by placing advertisements in 8,000 newspapers in every State at a cost of $2,000,000. There were also 33,000,000 handbills, window displays, free recipes, radio programs, much oral promotion by salesmen. Cattlemen bore none of the expense and there was no price fixing...
While Europe's merriest royal couple- Crown Princess Juliana, almost nine months pregnant, and Prince Bernhard, now in his sixth week of recovery from a, motor smashup-spent the holidays in adjoining rooms of an Amsterdam hospital, their friends received their royal Christmas card. It bore a photograph of Benno's wrecked Ford, beneath it a verse in their own English...