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...question No. 1 washed out all the other questions. The bald fact is that no one in the State Department has yet sat down with the British to work out execution of the policy the two countries agreed to in August. Nor has the State Department even begun to spell out the specific U.S. objectives under the Byrnes policy. The only effort to tackle revitalization of the Ruhr so far has been the interzonal agreements on communications and administration, between Lieut. General Lucius D. Clay and the British, which were announced in Germany last fortnight...
...hill village of Shirakawa, Hikosaku Matsumoto, 62, is called "Hyakkan Jii San"-100-kan oldster-because of his boast that he can lift 100 kan (825 Ibs.). His undisciplined white beard and scholarly bald dome make him look more like an elderly monk than an athlete. His nickname delights him so much that, after the manner of Tony Galento's boxing trunks, he has "Hyakkan" written in Chinese characters down the front of his athletic blouse...
...into a tragedy of love from which they will never emerge. Miss Johnson, as a housewife, is forty and looks it. She is not pretty. Her clothes are plain and her hair shows the results of innumerable "permanents" at a local beauty-parlor. Trevor Howard is a doctor, slightly bald, whose suits are unpressed and whose practice is completely unromantic. Both are married, and each has had two children by other plain people. They meet in the railroad station of a small English town and their "Star-cross'd" relationship develops...
Robertson, closemouthed, stoop-shouldered and almost bald, shies away from the press. He asked for the London job. He was tired from wartime chores, and broke. (His salary will remain the same but his living allowance will be much greater...
...Doreal is a chubby, bald little man with glittery eyes who turned up 17 years ago in Denver, Colo, and incorporated a new church: the Brotherhood of the White Temple. He said he was part Choctaw, born on an Oklahoma reservation and that, after serving in the Signal Corps during World War I, he had gone to Tibet and been received into the inner circle of the Royal Order of Shamballa Priests...