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...David Ben-Gurion has been the fire brand, Moshe Sharett is the count-the-costs civil servant. He went to Israel from Russia at the age of eleven, and grew up amidst Arab farmers, learning their ways and their tongue. He never forgets that Israel is a tiny island in the Moslem sea. In 1913 Sharett enrolled in law at the University of Constantinople; with the outbreak of the war he was drafted into the Turkish army as an officer, and fought at one time against T. E. Lawrence's Arab irregulars...
...Amidst the glamor and glitter of Manhattan's annual Gotham Debutante Ball, photographers closed in on a pair of lens-catchers, one of the year's most photogenic mother-and-daughter combinations, perennially beautiful Cinemactress Irene Dunne and Debutante Mary Frances Griffin...
...major address before the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, Pusey decried the present distrust of education, claiming that the leadership of 10,000 Harvard men is lost amidst "some dozens who probably flirted with or were actually involved with Communism at some time during their careers...
...Harvard, for instance, amidst all the recent recrimination and fomented suspicion, there is no one who will come forward to name a single Communist among our three thousand teachers...
Peeking over the wall of a villa near Cannes, the curious saw a squat, slow-footed man trying to absorb the Riviera sunshine through a heavy, fur-collared coat and baggy cap. The man, who proclaimed himself an architect from Paris, wallowed in luxury amidst the pines. He had five cars and a swimming pool at his disposal, was guarded night & day by a patrol of gun-toting guards and police dogs. The architect: Maurice Thorez, ailing boss of France's Communist Party...