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Died. Dr. Nicholas John Spykman, 49, Dutch-born geopolitico, Yale professor of international relations since 1928; of a heart ailment; in New Haven. Dapper, high-domed Spykman left seven years of journalism in the Middle and Far East in 1920 to get his Ph.D. at the University of California, became first director of Yale's Institute of International Studies in 1935. In 1942 his widely read America's Strategy in World Politics explored the global basis of power politics, insisted that "the final step ... to order is not the disappearance of force but its use by the community...
Divorced. Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson, 65, famed dapper tapper; by Fannie Clay Robinson; after 20 years; in Reno...
...Dapper Diplomat Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, 45, who used to be five Ambassadors and two Ministers (all to London-resident Governments in exile) became six Ambassadors and one Minister when the U.S. and Czecho-Slovakia upped their diplomatic relations a notch, from legations to embassies...
...candidate as Indiana's Paul McNutt, without the bril-liantined platinum handsomeness that annoys plainer men. He looks as solid as his reassuring Ohio colleague Robert Taft, without Taft's embarrassing stiffness. He dresses as well as New York's Tom Dewey, without seeming the least dapper...
Background for Broadway. Dapper Dan Walker became a Broadway columnist by accident. Georgia-born and 44 years old, he is a 145-lb. man with thin brown hair and a well-scrubbed look, who manages to look neat even after a seven-hour nightclub tour. He makes a fetish of cleanliness, gloomily anticipates a soap shortage, which he feels will be deliberate ly manufactured by the Government be cause "they'll want us to get used to living without soap so we'll be able to get along with all the foreigners who'll be coming...