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Leaving the appalling mess of the Korean truce talks and the prisoner-of-war issue behind him, Matthew Bunker Ridgway headed for his new job: Supreme Commander, Allied Powers Europe. When his Air Force Constellation touched down at Washington's National Airport one evening last week, Matt Ridgway, a four-star general in midpassage, had a chance to talk to his bosses about the gloomy past and the hopeful, dangerous future...
...founding fathers of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford believed in American art-and the closer to Connecticut the better. Painting No. 1 in the first catalogue the Atheneum ever published was The Battle of Bunker's Hill by John Trumbull, and the catalogue took pains to point out that "Col. Trumbull, the artist, was on that day adjutant of the First Regiment of Connecticut troops stationed at Roxbury, and saw (the) action from that point." Last week, no years after its founding by Daniel Wadsworth, the Atheneum was proudly showing the public how its horizons have broadened...
Colonel Laurence Bunker, one of MacArthur's aides, said yesterday that the general "was very pleased with the degree...
Nevertheless, Bunker continued, "the general has quite a number of honorary degrees waiting for him. Until the pressure on him from his appearances before state legislatures and national organizations lessens, he's making no plans to pick up these honorary degrees...
Expectations that the general would appear at the 1951 Commencement were shattered last May when Bunker announced that "previous engagements would prevent (him) from showing...