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...haggard, General Georges Catroux, Fighting French emissary to the North African government of General Henri Honoré Giraud, arrived in London last week and registered as usual at Claridge's. Within an hour he had bathed, changed and with a bulging briefcase left in a four-year-old Buick flying the French tricolor to see his leader, General Charles de Gaulle. Behind him lay two weeks of conferences in Algiers; before him, perhaps, a solution at last of the differences which had long divided the French...
...team of five soldiers can slap together a Pacific hut-cozy, semi-permanent quarters for 16 to 18 men-in only eight hours. Pacific Huts' founders took about that much time to slap their company together last year. Its president, an ex-Buick salesman, Frank Hobbs, was then head of the Colotyle Corp. (a wallboard manufacturer now making bathroom and shower assemblies for Henry Kaiser); its vice president, George K. Comstock, owned a Seattle neon-sign business...
Shapiro's comments on the American scene are remarkably fresh and versatile, touch on such matters of general interest as haircuts, Buick cars, street accidents, the Washington Cathedral, army camps, the housefly, Hollywood. Shapiro describes American democracy with the satirical gusto of an outcast who feels he is in the know about what it is really like...
...Zealand to Harvard in twenty days on twenty dollars" was the spinechilling saga of William G. R. Marden '46, who made use of the United States Army, several trucks, an abandontd Buick, and a pretty blonde during his 12,000 mile trek across land...
Global Grace. General Marshall likes to be out with the troops, but last week, as he is most of the time, he was in Washington. At 7:30 each morning he stepped from a black Buick sedan and walked into the Munitions Building on Constitution Avenue. In his big, plain office on the second floor, next door to the Secretary of War, he began his day by looking through "the log"?a sheaf of radiograms and cables from Britain, Iceland, Newfoundland, Alaska, the Caribbean, Brazil, British Guiana, Ecuador, West Africa, North Africa, Persia, Hawaii, Australia, the Solomons, India, China?...