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...nothing to diminish her enormous public appeal. Some recent polls rank her as the family's most popular member. No wonder then that she is not at all daunted by a solo life if that is to be her fate. "After all," says broadcaster and veteran royal biographer Penny Junor, "she's been orchestrating events." Her confidence is such that on her Paris trip, though she has only patchy, schoolgirl French, she did not hesitate to use it -- no mean attainment, since the French have a way of intimidating foreign speakers considerably more fluent than Diana. People who have worked...
William Barry Wood, summa graduate from Harvard in 1932 and now a professor at the Johns Hopkins medical school, has no trouble whatever remembering the specific incident that started him on his career as a microbiologist. Midway through his junor year, Wood chanced upon chemistry professor James B. Conant in the hallway outside a laboratory. Conant mentioned that one of his friends was currently investigating the relation between blood count and physical exercise. He suggested that a smart undergraduate might find the work interesting; and he conjectured that the men running the exercise project might be happy to have Wood...
...sending you a letter," the telephone caller told John D. B. Junor, editor of the London Sunday Express (circ. 3,766,724). "Maybe you would like to publish it." To Editor Junor, that was the understatement of the week. The very next Sunday, at the very top of the Readers' Letters column on page 4, under the headline ''I protest-" appeared the work of Junor's caller. It was signed Beaverbrook-the one man in all England who can be sure his letters to the Express will always be published...
...Express proprietor and Junor's boss, British Press Lord Beaverbrook was only exercising a publisher's right to disagree with his own paper. A devout and hymn-singing Presbyterian, the Beaver had been irritated by a Sunday Express story about some British clergymen who deplored the assault tactics of door-to-door canvassers for two religious faiths: Jehovah's Witnesses and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). Thundered disgruntled Reader Beaverbrook: "Mormon missionaries represent an important and dignified branch of the Christian religion. Their people in Utah and elsewhere are good-living...
Lloyd Harper's high-flying Junor Varsity baseball club will be shooting for its ninth straight victory this afternoon when it opens fire on the Springfield nine. The contest is scheduled for the Soldiers Field diamond at 4 o'clock...