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Peruvian Ambassador Alfredo Benavides had an idea, and to sell it he invited the heads of the diplomatic missions in Ottawa to come around for a drink. The idea: a gift to mark the retirement of U.S. Ambassador Ray Atherton (TIME, Aug. 23), dean of Ottawa's diplomatic corps. Ambassador Benavides had no trouble persuading 32 of his colleagues. A silver cigar box, they decided, would be just the thing, and it should be engraved with the signatures of the mission heads...
...After more than five years as the U.S. envoy to Canada, Ray Atherton was past 65 and heading for retirement. On the way, he would round out his career by serving as a U.S. delegate to the U.N. General Assembly...
...Ottawa, Harvard-educated Ambassador Atherton found that his dignified reserve matched that of the Canadians with whom he had to do business. Canadians liked him, whether in diplomatic dealings or at the parties which he threw...
...take Atherton's place, President Truman last week named Laurence Adolph Steinhardt, 55, who had made a fortune as a Wall Street lawyer before Franklin Roosevelt gave him (1933) his first diplomatic job as minister to Sweden. In the last 15 years, few U.S. envoys have had it tougher than Larry Steinhardt. After three grueling years as ambassador in Moscow (through the Hitler-Stalin pact period and the Nazi invasion of Russia) he had three tense years in Ankara. As ambassador to Prague, he had just returned from leave in the U.S., where he underwent a serious operation, when...
Died. Gertrude Atherton, 90, shockproof, indefatigable novelist and social chronicler; in San Francisco. She scored her first success in 1902 with The Conqueror, a novelized biography of Alexander Hamilton, later established her name with her historical novels and social histories of California. In 1923 she hit the jackpot with her top bestseller, Black Oxen, which described her own sexual rejuvenation by X-ray treatment...