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He had never learned to speak Chinese (or even pronounce proper names), yet he was the only man who dared criticize Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to his face. For 44 years he had been immersed in Chinese affairs, first as a correspondent and then as confidant, adviser and sometimes as...
General Ike Eisenhower confirmed last week what most of Washington already knew: that he would step out-probably within a year-as Chief of Staff and be succeeded by gentle, earnest General Omar Bradley, head of the Veterans Administration. That sounded O.K. to almost everybody: Ike would be free to...
Married. Captain Harry C. Butcher, 44, General Eisenhower's ex-aide, confidant and best-selling Boswell (My Three Years with Eisenhower); and Mary Margaret Ford, 34, ex-Red Grosser who met Navyman Butcher in Europe after the Battle of the Bulge; he for the second time, she for the...
All this sounded as though only a Nazi could have prepared it-and apparently one had. He was natty 42-year-old Dr. Heinrich Dörge, reputedly the favorite disciple of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht and Schacht's right-hand man in running Germany's famed Industrial Credit...
Handy Man. Of the three, the least known to the U.S. public is Mississippi-born George Allen. In Harry Truman's official family, but not of it, he holds no U.S. job, draws no Government salary. But no one, unless it is Jimmy Byrnes talking foreign policy, sees more...