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...that Nasser was promising to behave, and perhaps had to, the concern about Russian penetration of the Middle East turned to a second trouble spot: Syria. There, another Russian-backed Nasser has come to power: young, handsome bachelor Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj. From the moment Syria proclaimed martial law after the Anglo-French and Israeli invasions of Egypt, President Shukri el Kuwatly has been the virtual prisoner of the army, and Colonel Serraj has established himself as Syria's strongman. Nominally the army's chief of intelligence, Colonel Serraj last month personally planned the sabotage...
...freehand paraphrase of British Poet W. H. Auden, Bachelor Hammarskjold often declares: "Private faces should not be caught in public places"-and for some time after he became U.N. Secretary-General he was dismayed by the extent to which his private face was on public display. But he also inherited, as he once wrote, "a belief that no life was more satisfactory than one of selfless service to your country-or humanity. This service required sacrifice of all personal interests"-including, it soon became clear, the pleasures of anonymity. Hammarskjold came to recognize that in a job whose prestige comes...
Baltimore Bachelor Alfred Jenkins Shriver was a legal expert who prided himself on his skill with wills and his eye for beauty. He left behind, after his death in 1939, a dilly of a will to prove both points of pride. Not counting 235 bottles of scotch, 165 bottles of champagne, 15 gallons of pure alcohol and one bottle "of Howard County applejack (all of which went down the drain to avoid tax complications), he left a round $900,000 to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, to build Shriver Hall of materials "the best obtainable in the world...
...largest item of all: a 640-sq. ft. mural for the main lobby, made up of panels depicting the early faculty of the Medical School, the early faculty of Johns Hopkins, philanthropists of Baltimore, the picture of Shriver's class of 1891 and a deep, cotillion bow from Bachelor Shriver to The Ten Famous Beauties of Baltimore, each shown "at the height of her beauty...
...world," painting clothes on the nudes was the reluctant, if necessary, next step. The finished painting shows half an instep, no ankle. The result turned the bacchanal into a proper tea party on the lawn before Johns Hopkins' old "Homewood House," which was probably just what Bachelor Shriver had in mind all along...