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Bubbling with happiness, Norwegian Labor's Lie joined Belgian Labor's Spaak and Australian Labor's Makin in UNO's high command. Lie called a press conference, waved his arms at the reporters, bellowed: UNO will be bigger, stronger, sounder than the League of Nations ever...
...world learned to look to Latin American cities for some manufactured exports. On ancient, hand-me-down Manchester equipment, Brazil's textile mills make some $60,000,000 worth of textiles annually for South Africa, Ireland, Sweden, the Belgian Congo, Australia. Even though war-made markets may vanish, the fact is that today Brazil's manufactures are gaining on her agricultural products in export value. Brazil is one of the world's largest exporting nations...
...Chicago Symphony Orchestra's white-haired, Belgian-born Désiré Defauw last week picked ten pieces of music which would give the layman "the most comprehensive basis [for] the enjoyment of all music." His list...
Married. Commander George Howard Earle, 55, former New Dealing Governor of Pennsylvania, later disputatious Minister to Bulgaria (in 1941 a Nazi in Sofia complained that Earle conked him with a champagne bottle), wartime naval attaché in Turkey; and Jacqueline Marthe Jermine Sacre, 23, Paris-born daughter of a Belgian railroad executive in Turkey; he for the second time (four sons by a previous marriage), she for the first; in Istanbul. Said he: "I came back because I adore Jacqueline." Said she: "I love George. I knew he would come back...
...dogs in service, the Army took 19,000. More than half saw active service-140 as mine-detecting dogs, 151 as messengers, 268 as sleigh dogs, 541 as scouts, and more than 9,000 as sentries. Of the 15 breeds originally enlisted, German shepherds, Belgian sheep dogs, farm collies, Doberman pinschers and schnauzers turned out to be most satisfactory. Best all-around breed was the German shepherd...