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...This particular car did not come into my hands as those of a motoring correspondent," wrote the Earl of Cottenham. "Indeed, in the strict sense of the term. I am not a professional motoring correspondent...
...talked of the '22 H-Y-P football agreement, the Princeton slush fund of that year, and the rule saying no athlete could be helped through college "primarily" because of his athletic ability In closing he restated his faith in Coach Harlow and his belief in the importance of strict amateurism in athletics...
...take it. I was born a Britisher, and as blood is thicker than water, I still have a warm place in my heart for the British Isles. For this reason the escapades of King Edward VIII, and especially his relations with Mrs. Simpson, while almost revolting to a strict Churchman, seem to me to have a far deeper significance than that which is generally attributed to them...
Although most U. S. churchmen have long agreed that in decency's name the U. S. cinema should be regulated, some liberals have squirmed because the strict regulation which now exists was devised by Roman Catholics, is now in the Catholic hands of Motion Picture Production Code Administrator Joseph I. ("Joe") Breen. Last week was announced a step, obviously the work of astute Will H. Hays, Presbyterian Elder, which may make U. S. Protestants feel better about the part their churches play in purifying the nation's pictures. The most potent executive...
Last Good Friday night Elizabeth Smith, 18, thick-waisted daughter of a strict Bronx family, stayed up with the family until around midnight. Early next morning, looking slimmer and paler than she had for some months, Elizabeth Smith took the family dog for a customary walk. Later that Saturday the Smith neighborhood was in an uproar of police car sirens, screeching housewives, giggling boys and girls. In the airshaft of the tenement next door to the Smiths', a newborn baby boy had been found dead, apparently dropped from the roof. Easter Sunday, detectives asked childish Elizabeth Smith...