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...Yugoslavia, India and Egypt withdrew from the sessions, thus preventing a quorum...
...Delighted." Nationalist feeling was running high in favor of John MacCormick. But in the first stages of the campaign, when Douglas Fairbanks magnanimously withdrew in favor of Lord Inverchapel ("I substantially share his views . . ."), it seemed as if his lordship might run away with the votes...
...weeks ago Berliners and West Germans were tense with the knowledge that thousands of Red troops, at the peak of fitness after summer maneuvers, stood menacingly along the zonal borders. There was talk of "the October 1 danger point." The point passed, the troops withdrew. Last week Free Germany stopped holding its breath: the Soviet soldiers had moved back into winter quarters...
...last-moment hitch developed in the well-laid wedding plans of Cinemactor Errol Flynn, 41, and Hollywood Dancer Patrice Wymore, 23, when a French Lutheran clergyman suddenly withdrew the use of his church. The twice-divorced groom scurried about, thought he had found another, an abandoned church in Beaulieu-sur-Mer. Other reported plans: a civil ceremony in Monaco with an army guard of honor, peasants dancing in the streets, followed by a one-day honeymoon, the shortest of Flynn's career...
Theodore A. Trent-Lyon, the Divinity School graduate held in the slaying of a Yale professor, was described last night as having been "very sick" when he withdrew from Harvard...