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...Greek word for yes is neh, and in the main Author Lee is a great neh-sayer. He liked Hellenic warmth, individuality and liveliness (but not the oil-drenched cuisine). He was stirred by the keening, semi-Oriental laments known as Greek music and the sturdy acrobatics of the men's handkerchief dances in the tavernas...
...Noble lost to Joe Seckler of Penn State, wrestling unattached, 7 to 5. When Seckler injured his knee, he was unable to continue in the meet, depriving Noble of a chance to enter the consolation rounds. To continue after a loss, the loser's opponent must advance into the semi-finals...
...Guide, Seventeen, Daily Racing Form, Morning Telegraph), saw a promising opportunity for a light-feature and top-of-the-news sheet that will not try to match the intensive local coverage of his Inquirer or the prosperous Bulletin. Under its new publisher, the Daily News will go from a semi-morning paper (six editions, from midnight to noon) to one-shift afternoon publication (two editions, at 8:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.), in competition with the Bulletin. It will drop its pallid "weekend edition" (which goes to press on Friday night), remold its politics to an "independent" line closer...
Actually, Roosevelt was a good, though not a spectacular, Crimed. His fellow editors remember him variously as "a cocky, conceited chap with a great name but nothing else," the best "mixer of claret punch for the semi-annual initiations of new editors," an "energetic, resourceful, and independent" person, and a man with "remarkable capacity for dealing genially with people...
...After semi-singing his way through more than 600 performances of Broadway's nonstop musical My Fair Lady, Actor Rex Harrison sailed away from his historic stint. Bound with him for Europe was his bride of five months, long-legged, luscious Cinemactress Kay (Les Girls) Kendall. The couple were headed for a seven-week holiday in Switzerland, then to Paris, where Kay will wrestle with Rex in a movie titled The Reluctant Debutante. When April trips round again next year, Harrison will be doing business in the same old stance-as misogynous Professor 'Enry 'Iggins...