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When the 32nd returned to Wisconsin after four years of World War II, the town of Marshfield (pop. 14,153) had suffered so many casualties (20 dead out of an infantry company of 122 men) that it refused to have another National Guard unit located there. Recalls Mrs. Clare Ecke, whose husband fought with the Red Arrow Division: "I remember one blue Monday when the Marshfield News Herald had nine killed-in-action pictures spread across the front page. That's a lot for a town like this to take." But Marshfield changed its mind...
Dolores Hart, an actress whose round face seems to have been cut from moist white bread, contributes to this weirdly unanimous good will as St. Clare, founder of the women's branch of the Franciscan order. She giggles. All of this is understandable, being the result of a general lack of competence. What is baffling is the film makers' failure to include what should have been the movie's boffo scene. These men bear watching; thinkers who leave out of a life of St. Francis the story of his preaching to the birds and "making the swallows...
...weeks, with other lots of 100 to follow. Neither Eleanor Roosevelt nor Milton Eisenhower would go to Havana -but the committee had in mind sending six U.S. engineers and farm experts to complete negotiations. And, following a proposal that had been made the day before by former U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce, the committee suggested that the International Red Cross "handle the details relating to the release of the prisoners." Mrs. Luce opposed the swap, but she felt that bringing in the Red Cross might clear up some U.S. official confusion and mismanagement...
...afford only $287-enough to give 360 visitors a pass at trays of simple canapes and a sip of cheap German sparkling wine. In Leopoldville, where the Belgians established an Elsa Maxwellian standard of party-giving that the Congolese now regard as the norm for diplomatic life, U.S. Ambassador Clare Timberlake must keep up with the Joneses on a budget of $2,000. "I haven't asked for an increase and don't intend to," he says. "But I'd like to feel I could serve my country without being personally out of pocket every year...
...G.O.P. gained momentum in the years ahead-the Republicans brought in some outside political muscle. Arizona's Barry Goldwater helped kick off Lindenbusch's campaign. Into St. Louis came Jack Stiles, who directed the G.O.P. national registration drive last year, and Assistant National Committee Chairman Clare B. Williams...