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...brisk morning last March, two ladies of serious demeanor paid a call at Brooklyn College. It was important that their mission be kept a secret. So, stating only that they were members of the Public Education Association, they bustled into a large building, hurried down a corridor, and quietly slipped into back-row seats in a history classroom...
This year's Bellboy squad is, according to its coach, the "best in a long time." With a huge line sparked by 60-minute men Tony Ripley, towering Dave Brisk and Ray Silver, the Lowell team is expected to give Kirkland a long fight for the title. Lowell is one of the few house teams running out of a T but expects to alternate this with the single-wing if its passing attack develops further...
Black Array. The fagade of banalities, already cracked, soon crumbled. Next day, Assembly Chairman General Carlos P. Romulo of the Philippines, a neat, brisk figure always dressed in immaculate black, was presiding with proud relish when he got the news of the year. A U.S. correspondent passed him a note: "President Truman has just announced that Russia has the atom bomb. Amen." Trygve Lie, at Romulo's side, scribbled a quick reply: "If true, it makes the U.N. all the more indispensable." Then he sat back to await Andrei Vishinsky's scheduled address...
From $1.90 in early August the price soared to $3.93 on Sept. i, then slipped off to $2.69. Last week it bounced back up under brisk bidding to $3.25. Nor was the end of the boom in sight. Onions usually start coming into the market for delivery n November. But if the price is rising, and the crop short, many a farmer will probably hold out his onions and the short sellers scurry to cover their sales. Commented a trader happily: "That's when prices will really begin...
...people about things that interest me and that I hope will interest them." His sponsor, Lee Hats, decided on Montgomery (reportedly at $5,000 per week) when Lee ended its 3½-year tie-up with Gossipist Drew Pearson. Asked his opinion of his predecessor, Montgomery replied with a brisk "No comment." But he admitted that "I'm not going to use a crystal ball on this program...