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...General Douglas MacArthur. But once the presidential DC-6, Independence, left St. Louis, his jocularity vanished. At California's Fairfield-Suisun Air Force Base he barely nodded to photographers. In Hawaii the next morning, Admiral Arthur W. Radford's pretty wife welcomed him according to island custom; when she put a lei around his neck and kissed his cheek, he reddened, took off the floral offering as if it were poison...
...sportwriters by saying, "I don't know whether I'm coming back next year ... it will depend upon my health." Last week Stengel got just what the doctor ordered: a two-year contract making him the highest-paid manager in baseball history. True to a modern baseball custom much favored by front offices, Casey would not reveal the exact terms. The best guess: $65,000 a year plus a possible $15,000 more in profit-sharing bonuses...
...fall program of football weekend dances will start tonight when informal dances are held at Dunster and Lowell. Following the usual custom, tickets will be interchangeable, allowing couples to attend both affairs. The dances will start at 8:30 p.m. and end at midnight...
...times have been changing in the misty capital. Spanish custom has been modified by the influence of the amiable French and the brisk North Americans. Now Colombian Essayist Camilo Pardo Umana has suggested a revised Code of Mourning...
Other churchmen, led by Canon Henry Graham, commended this "sensible custom." The result was a typical British compromise: a vote to delete all reference to ash-scattering from the new church law. This would neither prohibit the custom nor give it full and absolute sanction...