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Proper Background. In appearance, manner and background, Macmillan is typecast for Foreign Secretary. He is tall (6 ft.) and debonair, with a dashing guardsman's mustache and expensive tailoring casually worn. His grandfather, Daniel Macmillan, was a Scots crofter (tenant farmer) who migrated to London, and in years ago founded the now prosperous book-publishing house of Macmillan & Co., Ltd. Macmillan's mother, the former Helen Belles of Spencer, Ind., gave him what the English call "an American connection." Wealth and precocity led to good schools (Eton and Oxford), good marks (a first at Balliol), good regiment (Grenadier...
Ready When Required. Debonair Harold Macmillan, the Tory Defense Minister (and wartime political adviser to General Eisenhower in North Africa), pridefully pointed out that Britain had figured out the H-bomb "without American or outside help." Then, in a pointed statement that would have disturbed many Britons had it come from Washington, Macmillan told a press conference: "I hope [the bomb] will be ready when the Russians require...
...Debonair in a silk scarf and herringbone topcoat, and physically not fading at all, General Douglas MacArthur who will be 75 this month, left his 37th-floor apartment in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers to commute by limousine to his job in suburban Connecticut. As Remington Rand Inc.'s $68,600-a-year board chairman, MacArthur makes two or three such trips a week. In his fourth year of retirement as a soldier, he is seldom seen, presumably spends much time in the towers with his family and his memories...
Interviewed in Manhattan, debonair Crooner Billy Eckstine announced plans to record an Eckstine-composed duet, Two for Tee, with an old fairway acquaintance, Golfer Jimmy Demaret, three-time winner of the Masters Tournament, and described by Billy as "a surprisingly sweet Killarney tenor type." But Golfer Demaret has no place in Eckstine's vision of the composite "dream crooner." His choices and their attributes: "The ideal lad would have Perry Como's voice, Frank Sinatra's ease, Tony Martin's showmanship, Nat 'King' Cole's soul-and Bing Crosby's money...
...Harold Hand, 53, professor of education at the University of Illinois, debonair devotee of the theory that traditional subjects are less important than service to society. As a member of the influential Illinois curriculum program, Professor Hand has spread his gospel throughout his state, has helped arouse dozens of schools and communities to work more closely together. "There are," he says, "community needs that simply have to be met. But anything we ask a youngster to do has got to have a clear relationship to something he wants. So we need to have things that the community needs make sense...