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...ultimate aim of all their strivings is to take home the Goldthwaite Cup emblem of Big Three 150-pound crew championship. They will row for it at Derby, Conn. The course will be the regulation Henley distance, a mile and five sixteenths, precisely the length of the longest straight stretch on the English Thames where the original Henley is held...
...carrying passengers cheaply (1½ ? a mile) and as safely as railroads, Greyhound has grown into a holding company which controls 19 transportation systems under the Greyhound emblem-Atlantic Greyhound, Pennsylvania Greyhound (50% owned by Pennsylvania Railroad), Pacific Greyhound, etc. The systems have over 78,000 miles of routes, six times greater than the mileage of any single U.S. railroad, do some 40% of U.S. intercity bus business. Last year the company grossed $174 million, earned a net of nearly $20 million, and paid handsome stock dividends of $3.20 a share...
...page first Sunday edition this week, thrown together in eight days by regular Evening Bulletin staffers working overtime, was packed with such ex-Record features as Drew Pearson, Hedda Hopper, Steve Canyon and Li I Abner. It included comic and book sections still under the Record emblem, and two magazine sections for the price of one: Marshall Field's Parade and Hearst's American Weekly-both of them loot from the Record. With a Sunday package like that, Publisher McLean hoped soon to take the qualifier out of his advertising slogan: "In Philadelphia, Nearly Everybody Reads the Bulletin...
...took me some doing to comprehend the meaning of the emblem that headed your REPORT FROM THE WORLD [TIME, Jan. 6; Jan. 20]. In the beginning it did not make much sense. . . . But after studying it for a while it suddenly came clear [that] those "symbols" were contoured likenesses of the members of a global round-table conference...
Kathleen was dropped like a hot spud. In the midst of the gloom the Irish Times at last found a good word to say for the harp. To Irishmen good, black Guinness stout is "the wine of the country." Like Eire, Guinness uses the harp for its emblem. "They have 25 strings to their harps," wrote the Times columnist helpfully. "If you can count them, you can safely order another bottle...