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Many another staunch spirit was equally unstarched last week. In a quick one-two, Britain's July temperatures had shifted from the coldest since 1901 to the hottest on record at Kew Observatory. On shadeless Dartmoor, escaping Convict Maurice Patrick Murphy gave up the chase and called to his pursuers: "This way, boys, it's too hot for hikin'." While police in radio cars patrolled seaside resorts, pleading with parents to keep their children out of the sun, two prize pigs at an agricultural show in Lyndhurst dropped dead after winning a ribbon apiece...
...Britain's fields, like the others, were pungent with the smell of freshly plowed earth. In Kew Gardens photographers snapped pictures of rhododendrons in bloom five weeks before their time. Here & there, jokers were at work. Enthusiastic residents of Scarborough, in a frenzy of excitement over the notes of the first cuckoo, were crestfallen to discover that the trills of good cheer actually came from a toothless street cleaner named Hezekiah Johnson. "I wait until a crowd gathers," admitted Johnson. "Then I go into a nearby park and cuckoo. They all take it in. I used...
...Kew Gardens, Long Island, Wellington Koo Jr., 26, who had already been charged with speeding four times (two fines, two dismissals), was charged again, won a dismissal on the ground of diplomatic immunity. But the judge decided to write a little letter to Koo's father, the Chinese Ambassador...
...always, the students lined both sides of the pathway between Widener and the Chapel steps to watch the procession of College, local, and national leaders parade to the speaking platform. University Marshal Dr. Reginald Fitz '06 again led the march, accompanied by Loring R. Kew, Special Sheriff of Middlesex County. Kew, filling in for the ill Sheriff Joseph McElroy, symbolized the longstanding ties between the University and the Country...
...Kew officially opened the ceremony by striking the platform three times with his scabbard, after which Dean Sperry offered the invocation. The Commencement parts were then delivered by James B. Peabody '45, who gave the Latin Salutatory, S. Douglas Cater '46 1G, and Robert V. Hansberger...