Word: birthdays
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...Change in Heart." Last January, a month before his 65th birthday, Dulles finally achieved his long-sought goal. When he came up before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for confirmation as Secretary of State, Wisconsin's Senator Alexander Wiley asked him if he had in mind any specific changes in U.S. foreign policy. Dulles squinted at the ceiling, then said: "Well, I think the change that is most needed is a change in heart." By last week John Foster Dulles' accomplishments in office left little doubt that U.S. foreign policy had undergone such a change-and that...
First Royalties. Last week the author of The Little Engine was no longer anonymous. Grosset & Dunlap signed a contract with Mrs. Frances M. Ford of Philadelphia, recognizing her as the author of the tale. The recognition came late: Author Ford is looking forward to celebrating her zooth birthday in March. Grosset & Dunlap will publish a new edition of The Little Engine That Could with Mrs. Ford's name on the cover, and she will receive the first royalties she ever got for her famed story...
...Birthday Present. A fourth in the seventh race sent Gene into the point lead, but five other skippers were still close enough to pass his narrow margin, notably last year's runner-up, Charles 111 of Mantoloking, N.J. Aboard Wisp in the last race, Gene lay back at the starting line, careful not to jump the cannon. He got off well into a 14-knot southerly, rounded the windward mark of the 8|-mi. triangular course, billowed out his spinnaker to catch the wind for the second mark, then reached for home. All the way, he shrewdly covered Charlie...
This Is the Army? In Fort Sill, Okla., Army Captain James C. Blackford began a new morale program: to each man in his company on his birthday-a cake, a three-day pass and a personal letter of greeting...
Adam's Apron. Last week the British Museum was celebrating its 200th birthday, and with typical scholarly restraint was making no great hullabaloo over the anniversary. The only variation in the routine in the huge, Grecian-façaded building in Great Russell Street was an exhibition of the Sloane Manuscripts, part of the collection on which the museum was founded...