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...contrary opinion are most of His Majesty's subjects. They hold the British Empire "greatest." Recently Scot Mac-Donald was called "traitor" by the precious-precocious son of Conservative Winston Churchill (TIME, Feb. 23). In Britain's coming electoral campaign Conservative candidates & professional patriots will roast J. R. M. for his generous, reckless major burble...
...Vatican, penetrated Italy, rode demurely in a hot and rattling railway car for more than 24 hours, then faced grim but unsuspicious Fascist frontier guards who gave one scowling look at his Papal passport, let him go. After that it was easy for the young priest to carry his precious documents to their destination. Once in Paris, he turned them over to Catholic superiors who nodded approval when the young priest begged, "Please do not let the newspapers know my name...
Plump, chatty, irresponsible, Troubadour Downey is still addicted to expensive cars, large apartments and other luxuries precious to those who have learned? they may not keep them long, but he banks three quarters of his income, no longer has a chauffeur. He is proud that his appeal is not, like that of Rudy Vallee and other famed radio entertainers, based on vocal sexuality. It rests, rather, upon the fact that his high, clear voice broadcasts much more smoothly, more truly than voices which, louder and more pretentious, would easily be recognized as superior to his on a concert stage...
Arrived off the Isle of Wight, the Hamburg transhipped the German Delegation onto the British destroyer Winchester which brought them with all honor to Southampton-honor particularly precious to a war-defeated nation...
Antioch College this June reaped precious usufruct of its work-study plan. Cooperative arrangements between classroom and factory, office or field were maintained with difficulty through last year. But, exulted Antioch last week, "They were maintained." Antioch seniors who want jobs have them, even though one man has been cooking on a Venezuela oil tanker and another is barnstorming the U. S. with an autogiro...