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...crop of ends is unusually large this year, and among them is the only Conant Prize Scholar of the squad, Ralph Murphy, who hails from New Albany, Indiana. Other outstanding men are Winthrop Jameson, who prop- ped at Exeter, and Tony Staruski, a former star at Hyde Park High...
...Hard-boiled reporters felt that hulking Premier Flandin had made several tactical errors in his last appeal to the Deputies. His entire speech had been dramatic and emotional, from the pedestal to prop his broken arm to the hints of dire plotting on the part of U. S. correspondents-hints that no other French official could substantiate. And sympathy is an emotion that French Deputies find hard to sustain for more than an hour. Flandin had referred directly to his physical handicap, to the secret rage of his opponents, had stung their vanity by insisting that he alone was capable...
...longer head the stationery of undergraduates, proud of the gleaming red seal which is the symbol proclaiming his superiority to other men. It must be out from banners and doubtless divorced from the deadly bookend, that its presence be a not too obvious prop of learning. As a substitute the Harvard arms is offered--the seal minus the circumferential lettering and the Christo et Ecclesiae, but the very shape itself must be altered from the round. What remains is a castrated version, devoid of all meaning and shorn of he grandeur of tradition...
...East Texas oil fields. The British, U. S. and Dutch oil men wanted to keep their Irak oil off the market as long as possible. The French, however, with no oil of their own, wanted their Irak oil at once. King Feisal, too, wanted his oil royalties, the chief prop of his State's income. Soon afterward Britain ended its mandate over Irak and gave Feisal his kingdom free and clear, with full membership in the League of Nations. Feisal began to develop plans to use his oil royalties to irrigate Irak and change it from a pocked desert...
...Ambassadors. But Mr. Grew has leaned on this vital prop less than any predecessor. The Embassy is Grew, suave but adventurous "Tiger" Grew. Poker is his game. Japanese music and Japanese flower arrangement are the hobbies of Mrs. Grew, a granddaughter of Japan-opener Commodore Matthew Perry...