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...Major General Wilton B. (for Burton) Persons, successor to New Hampshire's Sherman Adams as Assistant to the President of the U.S. The difference between Sherm Adams and "Jerry" Persons is more of manner than method. Adams was the stern, testy New Englander, all business and no chitchat. Persons, 63, is a mellow, Scotch-sipping, storytelling Alabaman, whose years as a U.S. Army liaison man on the Hill (1933-38, 1939-49), as head of the Defense Department's Hill representatives (1948-49), and as Ike's link with Congress (1953-58) make him alert to congressional...
That afternoon six members of his State Department office staff came over bearing gifts and chitchat. The day's final birthday party came when wife Janet arrived with an armful of presents to head up a quiet family affair...
...sometimes overdone passion for the controversial proved too controversial for many advertisers. Last year, despite violent protests by Murrow, the show went off the air. Soon afterward, Murrow delivered his celebrated Chicago speech charging TV with "decadence and escapism."Reporter-Entertainer Murrow was stripped down to the chitchat of TV's Person to Person and Small World, a daily radio news report and an occasional guest shot as a big-name narrator. Moreover, Ed Murrow got into deep water with his scarcely responsible The Business of Sex (TIME, Jan. 26 et seq.). Last week Ed Murrow indulged...
...President watched the Queen dedicate the American Memorial Chapel, built out of British funds contributed by British families in the austerity-thin days after World War II. After that he lunched with the Queen and Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace, at the Queen's suggestion ventured beyond protocol chitchat to talk foreign policy. He called on Winston Churchill, made a little news by disclosing that Churchill had been invited to visit Ike in Washington in May, and might accept. And that night in the 500-year-old Guildhall, where General Eisenhower made his famed 1945 victory speech, Nixon...
Bagged for a TV interview in Rio, New York's vacationing Governor-elect Nelson Rockefeller gamely plowed through a new, unsought role: stooge on an eggbeater spiel. Following some 20 minutes of political chitchat, sultry Interviewer Lidia Matos casually stuck an appliance in Rocky's grip, asked the key question: What is it? An egg beater, answered Rockefeller, brightly but warily. "You're right," warbled Saleswoman Matos, beaming into the camera. "It's the lightest, most efficient egg beater made in Brazil...