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...captive audiences and in public Al Gruenther sturdily ex-tolls the long, hard distance NATO has come from the days when Ike and Al first set up headquarters in the Astoria Hotel near the Arc de Triomphe, and ex-Prizefighter Georges Carpentier ran the bar downstairs. Then there were fewer than 15 NATO divisions, only one of them combat ready; the rest were largely split up into occupation units. Then there was no plan, and no communications to set it in motion. A phone call to Oslo took twelve hours, and passed through the Soviet zone of Germany. All that...
Friends Won. At Moscow Central Airport, bundled to their ears in thick fur coats, Bulganin and Khrushchev hurried from their homecoming plane to an arc-lighted platform, told Russia's radio and TV audience that it had been a "wonderful trip." Said Khrushchev: "In the 370 million people of India, as well as the people of Burma and Afghanistan, we have allies in the struggle for peace throughout the world . . . India is a great and good friend of our country. Just like the Soviet Union and the Chinese People's Republic. India stands firmly in the ranks...
...Congratulations-or something-for your cover of Julie Harris as Joan of Arc, by Henry Koerner as Paul Cezanne-quite a tour de force for one set of four-color plates...
Died. Arthur Honegger, 63, topflight modern composer (Pacific 231, Joan of Arc at the Stake); of a heart attack in Paris. Of the modern composer's plight, he said: "Music is dying, not from anemia, but from plethora. There is too much [talented] production and too little demand...
...film Jean Anouilh's The Lark, using a new English translation of the original script rather than the adaptation by Christopher Fry which played in England or Lillian Hellman's adaptation now playing on Broadway. Huston picked French Star Suzanne Flon (Moulin Rouge) for the Joan of Arc role, now played on Broadway by Julie Harris...