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...Philippines, David Jones was impressed by the earnest efforts of Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay (TIME, March 19, et seq.) to rout out the last of the Communist-led Hukbalahaps-but he wasn't much impressed by Philippine army intelligence. At the Y.M.C.A. in Manila, Jones bet a fellow boarder $100 that he, David Jones, could do better than Magsaysay's G2. He went to the flamboyant Defense Secretary and offered to try his hand at espionage. Magsaysay accepted : "You will either make good your boast or a fool of yourself...
Young Man's Fancy. In San Rafael, Calif., Mrs. Etta Waldorff, 50, accused her 91-year-old male boarder of chasing her around in his birthday suit until she finally had to put a lock on her bedroom door...
...amusedly calls himself "the despair of the nuns." They hope for a deathbed display of piety from their speculative old boarder. Outside the convent, he is the despair and delight of his fellow philosophers and critics, who are confounded by his lack of a "system," but cannot resist the charming cadences of his style...
...past 15 years the C.I.O.'s President Philip Murray has been a regular boarder at Washington's fashionable Hotel Carlton, one of the capital's best addresses and a place the President has often used for official entertaining. But last week, callers were politely told that Mr. Murray was no longer registered at the Carlton. Murray had moved across the street and down the block to the Hay-Adams, and for a reason...
...girl turned into a shiftless housewife, her mind on men, her thoughts in the past. Doc wound up not a doctor, but a chiropractor, and (until Alcoholics Anonymous took over) a drunk. His career blighted, his emotions blunted, he half sleepwalks through life. Then, discovering that their college-girl boarder is turning, like Lola, into a slut, he goes on another drunken rampage...