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...owner through the smooth clearing channels of organized motoring. Before buying a used car the British motorist has it "expertized" by his club, knows what he is buying. Last week nobody knew better than Major Hore-Belisha that his antics as Minister of Transport are merely a smart flash in the political pan. They may help to blow him far, even perhaps-eventually-to the Prime Ministry...
...Alabama . . . $6,500,000 for California . . . $11,500,000 for Illinois . . . $18,900,000 for New York . . . $9,100,000 for Pennsylvania . . . $468,000 for Wyoming. Only one State was missing from the list of benefactions. It was Maine, where the election had already been held. In a flash the Republican campaign committee pounced on this fact...
Considering where the King of Siam spends most of his time, namely, on the other side of the world, there is reason on the Premier's side of the quarrel. But the Old Etonian is a stickler. When the Singapore flash reached England, His Majesty reluctantly drove up from Surrey, released an elaborate statement to the London Press. All most Englishmen cared to read was this: ''The King has intimated his desire to abdicate to the Government at Bangkok. No definite documents of any kind have yet been signed by the King...
...thousands & thousands of U. S. novel readers Lawrenceville is still the harum-scarum little preparatory school of the 1890's about which Alumnus Owen Johnson wrote in The Varmint and Tin Tennessee Shad. Unforgettable are sue) redoubtable characters as Dink Stover Doc Mcnooder, The Prodigious Hickey Flash Condit, Turkey Reiter, The Triumphant Egghead-a lusty lot, forever up to highjinks, forever bedevilling their masters...
...chair, roll up his sleeves and run the show with practically no coaching. With its news editors, rewrite men and teletype operators, the place looks, sounds, smells and works like a wire service office in any U. S. city. But there is an invisible difference: The teletyped news reports flash cross-country not into newspaper offices but into 50 broadcasting stations...