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...colonel's son who went inevitably to West Point (class of '17), Ridgway has served peacetime stints in China, Nicaragua, the Panama Canal Zone, the Philippines, Brazil, the Caribbean Command area, and at the United Nations. No stranger to Europe, he led 82nd Airborne paratroopers in World War II and there picked up his familiar hallmark-a grenade hung ready for throwing, on his combat harness. In the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, he served under Britain's Field Marshal Montgomery, who will now be his deputy commander at SHAPE. Monty says he is "delighted...
...large drops," he wrote, "is worse than one of our northeast storms; but the labors of agriculture and amusement of letters will shelter me." Adams gradually slacked off on farm chores, but nothing ever slaked his thirst for letters. He lived to boast of reading 43 books in his 82nd year, and it was in his study, at the hoary age of 90, that he died...
...82nd Congress, whatever else it achieves, has already set a record for investigations. In their first session last year, the inquiring Congressmen held 130 hearings, ranging in subject from MacArthur's dismissal to the use of chemicals in food products. In their second session, now under way, the legislators will probably handle an even larger number of inquiries. On the schedule...
...Senators and Representatives trekked back into Washington this week for the second session of the 82nd Congress. They hope it will be short, so they can get at 1952's urgent business - campaigning. Investigations, foreign aid and the defense budget are the main subjects on the agenda. All seem agreed on one big point: no increase in taxes...
...82nd birthday, Painter Henri Matisse received an abstract plaudit from Painter Pablo Picasso, who wrote: "No painter has ever tickled painting to such bursts of laughter...