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Next day a clipped English voice that has persuasively argued in many Jerusalem courtrooms replied: "With the future of our children in doubt, with our national patrimony in danger, we [Palestinian Arabs] come to you ... in the full assurance that your conscience will support us." Dark, dapper Henri Cattan, speaking for the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine, was telling U.N. what the Arabs expect of them: immediate stopping of all Jewish immigration into Palestine, setting up of an independent state in which Arabs would have a majority...
...dapper little man with a lisp and a limp walked into an UNRRA office in Germany and showed his credentials. He was Ludger Dionne,* first-term member of the Canadian House of Commons from St. Georges, in Quebec's Beauce County and he was in Germany with the approval of the Canadian Government and the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees. What he wanted made UNRRA officials blink: 100 girls, preferably Poles...
Richard E. Berlin,* straw boss of Hearst periodicals, passed the word, and purred that "there will be no change whatever in the magazine." But without dapper Harry Bull, 100-year-old Town & Country was bound to change. In his dozen years as editor, he had tailored it to his own well-bred tastes; the Chief (a fellow alumnus of St. Paul's and Harvard) had never so much as peeked over his shoulder. Bull had tried to restore the savoir-vivre of the magazine's good old days (TIME, Dec. 16), had given "the wellborn, the rich...
...mainly responsible for Guarujá's face-lifting is dapper, soft-spoken Raymond Fernand Loewy, 54, a French-born engineer who parlayed a stake of 20? into a $3,000,000-a-year business in industrial designing. As one of the top U.S. industrial designers, Loewy's list of clients has grown to impressive lengths, including the Pennsylvania Railroad, Armour. Frigidaire, International Harvester, Lockheed, Greyhound, and 87 other big corporations. With a staff numbering less than 250, he has boldly taken on all comers. He designed the Studebaker car, the Lucky Strike package, refrigerators, stoves, radios, lipstick tubes...
...Blue Network," mused dapper, cinnamon-blond Mark Woods, tweaking his buttonhole carnation, "was a dump...