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...Slim, buoyant Frances Willis is a hardworking, tactful career diplomat. A Ph.D. (Stanford), she taught history at Goucher and politics at Vassar before entering the foreign service at 28, served tours of duty in Chile, Sweden, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain and Finland. In 1944-45 she was assistant to Under Secretary of State Joseph Grew, who says of her nomination to be Ambassador to Switzerland: "I think nobody could do a better job than...
...Floundering Days. Poor navigation was threatening to wreck the French Communist Party. Since the buoyant days of 1946, 1) party membership has been almost halved; 2) Communist support in the powerful C.G.T. labor organization is only a quarter of what it was; 3) the circulation of L'Humanité is down two-thirds; Ce Soir and half a dozen provincial dailies have folded. The party still has an elite of probably 30,000 hard-core Communists, but the rank & file have been gravely affected by the Moscow damning of two of their great heroes: Old Communist Andre Marty...
Ulcers & Dilbert. Judging from his drawing, Cartoonist Osborn should have a disposition like a snapping turtle. Osborn surprises people by turning out to be a buoyant, handsome man of 48 with a pretty wife and two happy children. The son of a prosperous Wisconsin lumberman, he liked to draw pictures as a youngster, and wanted desperately to be a serious artist. The trouble was, says Osborn, that "I was quite fat, and I had to be funny all the time to cover up this fat business." The strain worried him into an ulcer at 14, but he eventually discovered...
...save it! What can we think up?" (One gathering got off to a bright start when Ros and Loretta appeared as the Toni Twins.) Van Johnson's wife Evie says: "I don't think I've ever seen her out of sorts. She's buoyant, like champagne." Ros's party gags, even in touchy Hollywood, make few enemies. The reason, thinks Loretta, is that "Rosalind is always Ros. She has a natural instinct for ridiculing herself and not anyone else...
...along with Radcliffe's new lines, we should have this Spring: a variety of colors--brash, bright, and buoyant in skirts, deep tones or dainty pastels in dresses; a similar variety in skirts--from the Guatemalan to the Indian print to the broomstick skirt; as for blouses, nothing much can change there anyway. And we've even heard of a lipstick called Volupte...