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...system seemed perilous to the Daughters of the American Revolution, who found the words of many a "subversive" author passing before the eyes of schoolchildren. Among such authors (most of them in standard anthologies of American literature): Novelist Jack London, Playwright Arthur Miller, Poets Carl Sandburg and Archibald MacLeish...
...their three-day conference in Washington last week, the foreign ministers of the Western Big Three emerged with springlike smiles and cheerful words. "A very satisfactory meeting," said the U.S.'s Secretary of State Christian Archibald Herter. "Agreement was reached," said France's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, echoing an earlier report by Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd that "we agreed on everything...
Died. Sir Archibald Mclndoe, 59, British plastic surgeon who gave hundreds of burned, maimed R.A.F. and Allied pilots new faces, limbs and lives; in his sleep; in London. In appreciation of his wartime skills, some 600 of Mclndoe's "reconverted" pilots formed an alumni group called "The Guinea Pig Club." Its anthem: "We are Mclndoe's army,/We are his guinea pigs:/With dermatomes and pedicles/Glass eyes, false teeth and wigs...
Bent slightly forward on his aluminum crutches, lanky (6 ft. 4½ in.) Secretary of State Christian Archibald Herter, 65, walked slowly down the aisle of the State Department auditorium one day last week for his ninth press conference. As he reached the lectern, the beetle-browed Secretary put aside his crutches (arthritis), leaned against the edge of a stool and faced 50 newsmen. In a precisely timed half-hour, they asked 39 questions ranging across U.S. policy from the Communist threat in Cuba (see HEMISPHERE) to highly technical details of East-West nuclear test-ban negotiations in Geneva...
...paint the cover portrait, the editors chose one of Australia's most illustrious painters: William Dobell, 60. whose bold, imaginative style has won him the New South Wales National Art Gallery's Archibald Prize for portraiture three times. Painter Dobell found Prime Minister Menzies a "good sitter," reports that they chatted about friends, other artists and a mutual lumbago during their sketching sessions. Viewing the finished product, a friend remarked that Dobell had captured Menzies' "supercilious look." "No," corrected Dobell, "I've got his disdain-for-critics look." Gruffed Menzies himself...