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Born into a military family (his father, Arthur, was a Navy captain), MacArthur chose the Foreign Service at the age of twelve after a Far East trip on which he was impressed by U.S. consular officials. At Yale ('32) he studied history and economics, played guard on the 1931 football team captained by Eli's "Little Blue Boy," Albie Booth. MacArthur entered the Foreign Service in 1935, served in Vancouver, Naples, Paris, Lisbon and Vichy, where he was interned by the Germans in 1942. Exchanged 16 months later, he encountered a Vichy official, gave a pointed reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Another MacArthur | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...Slapped a $1,000-a-month limit on the amount of consular fees (for ship registrations, invoices, etc.) that consuls are entitled to pocket, ordered anything over that sum to be turned in to the treasury. Prospective loser: newly appointed New York Consul Roberto de la Guardia, the President's brother-in-law and distant kinsman, who could have collected as much as $5,000 a month as his legal cut of consular fees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: Family Austerity | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...week's end violence claimed the first American life on Cyprus. Terrorists tossed two bombs into a tiny Nicosia restaurant, killed U.S. Vice Consul William P. Boteler, 26, wounded three other American members of the consular staff in Nicosia as they sat at dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Man Hunt | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

...25th anniversary issue (TIME, March 8, 1948), and the David Riesman cover (TIME, Sept. 27, 1954) André Laguerre, 41, born in England the son of a French father and an English mother, became a baseball buff as a boy in San Francisco, where his father was a French consular official. His devotion to horse racing came later, and so did a broad interest in sports generally. Last winter he covered the Olympic games at Cortina on special assignment for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, Apr. 9, 1956 | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

...used black oxidized bronze for a decorative frieze of state seals between the first and second floors and for a great seal of the U.S. above the main entrance. The final result is a U-shaped building that will house the embassy staff in the center, USIS and consular offices in either wing, and shelter a formal garden court (over an underground garage). Londoners generally were enthusiastic. Wrote the architectural correspondent of London's Times: "A welcome acquisition to the rapidly changing face of Mayfair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Home in Eisenhowerplatz | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

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