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...point Wilson was trying to make was that he, like the rest of the Cabinet, has had great difficulty in keeping able assistants from ditching Government service for private business. But Engine Charlie's little joke drew reporters' attention to another point. Now in his 37th month as Secretary of Defense, Wilson, despite his early bobbles, has outlasted all of his top civilian assistants but one (Truman-appointed Budget Expert Wilfred J. McNeil), has held office twice as long as any of his predecessors...
Died. Major General (ret.) Charles Stewart Farnsworth, 93, first Chief of (U.S.) Infantry (1920-25), commander of the U.S. 37th Division in World War I, one of the developers and onetime head (1919-20) of the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga.; in Corona, Calif...
...curtain fell on the opening night of Arms and the Man, April 21, 1894, with the audience clapping and calling for the author, George Bernard Shaw stepped to the footlights to be greeted with one loud, clear "Boo!" Arching his Mephistophelian brows (as red in his 37th year as his beard), G.B.S. addressed himself to the lone dissenter: "My dear fellow, I quite agree with you; but what are we two against so many?" Shaw didn't know it at the time, but he had won himself a slightly pesky pen pal. Within the week, the booer, a brash...
...crowds of West Germans circulating amidst the gleaming chromium and tingling scent of new leather at Frankfurt's 37th International Automobile Show last week, there was much to be proud of. Flashy B.M.W.'s and new models of such prewar favorites as the Mercedes showed plainly why the revived German automobile industry is gobbling up more and more (21.6%) of the world's export markets...
Fluid Assets. In Tokyo, Jokichi Tomoda, 81, dean of Japanese pickpockets, settled down in jail after his 37th arrest, explained why he had never opened a bank account: "Everybody walking the streets is a prospective bank to draw money...