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...Singapore last week, the British took the longest step towards self-government in 136 years of colonial rule. They staged the island colony's first really representative general election. In steaming heat, the Chinese, Malayan, Indian, Eurasian and European people of polyglot Singapore (pop. 1,200,000) went to the polls, where six political parties contended for 25 seats in a new Legislative Assembly, the winner to form a Cabinet and take over Singapore's internal administration-subject only to the veto of the British colonial governor. Often trailed by as many as four interpreters speaking Singapore...
Davis reached the pinnacle of his political life at the Democratic Convention of 1924-the longest, noisiest, bitterest political gathering in U.S. history. For two sweaty, exhausting weeks two evenly matched political gladiators-William Gibbs McAdoo of California and Al Smith of New York-kept the old Madison Square Garden in an uproar, the delegations hopelessly split, the Alabama delegation doggedly casting "24 votes for Underwood" and the convention stalemated. Finally, after the 80th ballot, the deadlocked delegates began to drift away from Smith and McAdoo, and the nomination was left to a field of also-rans...
...perform a notable journalistic feat. While most other papers were carrying only sketchy Yalta stories, the Times set in type and printed the full text of the 200,000 -word Yalta Conference record, along with news stories, pictures and editorial comment. It ran nearly 32 full pages, the longest text the paper has ever run (second: the 15-page Pearl Harbor Report...
...Congratulations on your tribute to the "over 60s" of music [Feb. 28]. I was fortunate enough to be seated near the leader of the applause at the Wilhelm Backhaus concert: the 80-year-old Fritz Kreisler. He applauded first, loudest, and longest...
...luncheon in Cincinnati this week, the National Conference of Christians and Jews paid a signal honor to one of the country's longest working columnists. The newsman: Alfred M. Segal, 71, who was celebrating half a century on the Scripps-Howard's Cincinnati Post (circ. 167,260) and 34 years as a columnist. Read the special citation: "[Segal's] writings and his personal life . . . have been the ideals and aims of the National Conference of Christians and Jews." Back in the Post's city room. Editor Dick Thornburg and his staffers had another way of saying...