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...about to take place. He held the King's attention until both tusks were pointed toward him. Then King Pedro turned, unaware of the averted crisis, and indicated his gifts, now in perfect order. The Pope threw up his hands in amazement. "How long?" he asked. "The longest," answered the King of the Congo solemnly. Then he hurried back to take his humble place behind the Portuguese Ambassador...
...Columbia was breaking no precedents in appointing General Eisenhower.* Robert E. Lee, after a lifetime in uniform, became the able president of Washington College (now Washington & Lee) in Lexington, Va. And even in the Herald Tribune's home town, the president who had ruled City College for the longest stretch was Alexander Webb, a Union general at Gettysburg. Columbia's 85-year-old President Emeritus Nicholas Murray Butler had no doubts about the matter. Said he: "General Eisenhower's great ability . . . in dealing with world problems [is] precisely what the world needs today in the administration...
Died. Julian Day, 68, one of the four red-haired sons of famed father Clarence (Life with Father) Day, terrible-tempered hero of Broadway's longest-run play; after long illness; in Lugano, Switzerland. The "Whitney" of the play inspired by brother Clarence's stories, Expatriate Julian served in Britain's World War I Camel Corps, later became a British subject and a successful London banker...
Wild Williwaw. But the era of good feeling ended almost at once in the howl of Alaska's biggest, longest political storm. After World War I, the Territory had suffered a slow decline. Its population had dwindled, and did not begin to rise again until the 1930s. Its lopsided economy was tied almost completely to fish and gold-a salmon industry owned in Seattle and a gold industry owned in the East. Alaska had been administered chiefly from dusty Washington pigeonholes by bureaucrats who had never seen a skate of halibut gear or a dredge's tailing pile...
...Turtle, Harvey, State of the Union, Born Yesterday, Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Mister, Finian's Rainbow, Brigadoon, All My Sons, Happy Birthday, John Loves Mary, Sweethearts, Burlesque-and Life with Father, which next week will beat Tobacco Road's record (3,182 performances)for the longest run in Broadway history...