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...WHOLE ARMOR (334 pp.)-Faith Baldwin-Rinehart...
...September, after North Korean armor had been slashing into outnumbered United Nations forces, many U.S. papers carried a picture of General MacArthur looking at a captured Russian-made tank. To newsmen he said, "This is a pleasing sight for my old eyes." The Red journalists printed MacArthur's picture and quoted him correctly. But their version showed a great change. MacArthur was gazing, not at a Russian tank, but on a pile of dead North Koreans...
When a writer with the nationwide, 30-year following of Faith Baldwin announces that her new novel has her "life's blood" in it (TIME, Jan. 29), the news calls for a certain amount of pricking up of ears. With the publication of The Whole Armor, ears can be at ease. Like the 60-odd Baldwin novels that have preceded it, this earnest story of a young Manhattan minister's search for maturity has a pretty thin hemoglobin content...
...polio cases led President Arnulfo Arias to call off all public assemblies. But in Trinidad, the calypso tents have been billowing for weeks to the chants of contenders for the title of 1951 calypso king. In Haiti, more than 30,000 people, clad in bamboo suits of armor and other bizarre costumes, loped along mountain trails on their way to masquerade in Port-au-Prince. In Buenos Aires' downtown Avenida de Mayo, colored lights, bunting and comic posters went up in preparation for a municipal jamboree. In Uruguay, practical jokers would soon be in full frolic on Montevideo...
...Local openings are in the Armor, Field Artillery and Infantry only. Age: 21 to 27 years and 9 months. Must hold a college degree or have been in the first three enlisted grades for at least six months. Must have had one year of active service prior to June 30, 1947, M.B.A. holders may obtain commissions in Medical Service Corps without prior service, but will go on immediate active duty...