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Presidential Campaigner Estes Kefauver explained to Drake University students in Des Moines how he achieved athletic fame: "I was just a benchwarmer on the University of Tennessee football team. When I ran for the state senate I found I was billed as having been a first stringer. When I ran for Congress they said I had been a star of the Southeastern Conference, and when I reached the Senate they jumped me clear up to All America tackle." After 42 years of public service, Frances Perkins, member of the Civil Service Commission and onetime (1933-45) Secretary of Labor, who will reach the mandatory retirement age of 70 next month, heard the news that she could go right on working. President Truman signed a special order exempting her from the retirement regulation.
Between lecture dates in San Francisco, a reporter asked Rhymester Ogden Nash to improvise a sample of his wares, was rewarded with:
May I boil in oil
And fry in Crisco
If I ever call San Francisco
'Frisco.'
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In the British magazine Opera, Composer Benjamin (Peter Grimes) Britten tackled the problem of critics: "If it is necessary to have critics . . . there should definitely be no regular critics. Criticism must be a sideline. To go through life living off other people's work clearly has too degrading an effect."
Marlene Dietrich, 47, called on her experience as mother and grandmother to expound some views on child guidance to a Chicago reporter: "In Europe [children] are taught life is hard. They don't expect too much. Here they are brought up to feel life is fun, life is wonderful. Life is not. In Europe a girl does not date before she is 16; she doesn't have a date alone even when she is engaged. Here, by the time they get married there's nothing left. It's not the children's fault. It's not the parents' fault. It's the system."
The annual Nobel Peace Prize nominations began arriving in Oslo. Among the 1952 crop: Canada's Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, Medical-Missionary Albert Schweitzer, Moral Rearmament's Frank Buchman, and Atlantic Union's Clarence K. Streit.