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...million people who will line the 4.16 miles along the Thames from Putney to Mortlake for a short glimpse of The Boat Race, for the additional millions who will crowd around television sets to watch the telecast made by every camera which the B. B. C. can transport to the river, for the charwomen and university professors and factory workers and Members of Parliament who will cease all other activities to listen to the broadcast of The Boat Race, for the Oxford and Cambridge men and women all over the world who eagerly await the result of The Boat Race...
...grey Navy transport in Yokohama, a bugler sounded taps. On the pier, another bugler echoed him. Fifty pressed steel caskets containing the bodies of U.S. fighting men killed in Korea* were loaded on to the ship, which slid out to sea under grey skies...
Political Career: At 27 became part-time secretary of the newly formed London Labor Party (salary: ?1 weekly). Conscientious objector in World War I. Elected to Parliament in 1923, appointed Minister of Transport (1929-31) in Britain's second Labor government. Later (1934-40) became a dynamic leader of the London County Council, concentrated on clearing the Dickensian squalor of London's slums, had notices put up in schools saying: "The teacher may be wrong. Think for yourself...
...Three destroyers, an R.C.A.F. transport squadron, a 6,000-man brigade for Korea...
...them from death or capture. Commanding officers have found helicopters a smooth, swift substitute for the jolting jeep for front-line tours. Last week the helicopters found another customer. The Army, hitherto restricted to small craft (under 4,000 pounds), got permission to fly the big copters, will form transport companies with 23 helicopters each, specially equipped to carry troops in amphibious, mountain and jungle warfare...