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John Barker, Jr., vice-president and general counsel of the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, Lloyd K. Garrison '19, New York City law firm member, and Louis Loss, professor of Law, will speak. Arthur E. Sutherland, professor of Law, will moderate...
...matter how it is steeped, garrison life for occupation troops near the provincial Lower Saxony town of Wolfenbuttel is a weak dish of tea. But something new and refreshingly British was added when the young Marquess of Blandford, son of the Duke of Marlborough, took up station there as captain in the Life Guards, one of Her Majesty's oldest and finest regiments. The Marquess, a real sporting chap, brought not only his young bride but also the ducal hounds. The 25-year-old Marquess and his fellow officers had no trouble rounding up pink coats, and the hunt...
...Name. Born in Baltimore 37 years ago, Garry Moore got his show-business start at 18 as writer-announcer on a Baltimore radio station. He worked until 1940 under his real name, Thomas Garrison Morfit. When he took over as writer-M.C. of Chicago's radio Club Matinee, he held a contest to pick out a new name: a Pittsburgh woman won $100 for suggesting Garry Moore...
...never actually built a road during his ten years in Britain, but he liked to think he meant to. With the confiscation, more & more of the farmers fled to the camps of the barbarian kings, and lately there were just not enough taxpayers to support the administration and the garrison. Still, it was possible to milk the rich merchants and keep things going, always exempting one's friends and relations, of course-notably the Senator Gratianus, whose pretty daughter, Maria, Felix had thought it wise to marry. Still, these were just the routine troubles of dominion...
Died. Prince Yasuhito Chichibu. 50, younger brother of Japan's Emperor Hirohito; of a liver ailment complicated by chronic pleurisy; in his villa at Kugenuma, Japan. The Oxford-educated prince was in ill health during most of World War II, sat it out with Tokyo's military garrison. At war's end Chichibu became Western-minded again, avidly read American comic strips ("Li'l Abner ... I can't understand...