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...defense setup. Also, Henderson has asked Baruch's advice, used the businessmen Baruch put him in touch with to handle individual prices, particularly copter (TIME, Dec. 9). For weeks Baruch has been a regular White House caller, and his influence with the President was the subject of many skits at this spring's Gridiron dinner...
...quadrille, descended by way of England from the early French court ballet. The quadrille, with its basic pattern of four couples forming a hollow square, spread from the original colonies throughout the land, acquired many a variant in technique and nomenclature. But everywhere the dance has a caller, an inventive, leather-lunged, cool-headed master of ceremonies who calls out the figures-swing your partner, dose-do (dos-a-dos or back to back), allemande, chassez (sashay), promenade, etc. As anyone knows who has ever tried it without prior training, a "set" of three different uninterrupted squares...
Last week Nelson Rockefeller's men were still busy talking to the U. S. companies which had pro-Nazi agents in Latin America. Some changes, with or without Rockefeller prompting, have already been made. Socony-Vacuum's former Monterrey manager, Herr Wilhelm Giesecke (a regular caller at the Nazi Consulate) is "no longer employed." Joseph A. Heedles, the U. S.-born (Brooklyn, N. Y.) member of Mexico City's famed distributing firm of Heedles & Breidsprecher, longtime agents for Du Pont, Remington Arms, Fairbanks, Morse & Co., etc., this month bought out his German partner. Some U. S. exporters...
Cartoonists had a field day. One drew a man raising his hat as he walks past a church (says his wife: "Don't do that; they might think you're a Senator"). Another showed a maid telling an early-morning caller, "Oh, no, the Senator's not in; he went to seven o'clock Mass." Mexico's famed, shovel-mouthed comic, Cantinflas, built a skit around a gun-toting politico trading his pistol in for a rosary, added "They're buying holy water instead of tequila now." As with Spain, Catholic liberals have been...
...Tiger is Spreyer than you and you'd better not try to Pettit," Huey's caller, Wun Lung Gong, warned dourly. "I'm here to tell you that it is Howleying for blood. My Jackson Princeton...