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...scene, on a chilly day last week, was an old sepia-toned photo come to life. In the background was "Old Abilene Town"-opera house, livery stable, chapel, railroad depot-all restored to preserve the flavor of the cattle-trail days of early Kansas. In the foreground on the lawn of the Eisenhower Museum were dignitaries, schoolchildren, townsfolk-10,000 people in all. Across the way, where soon would come the slam and crunch of bulldozers, was the site of the Eisenhower Presidential library; near by. the white clapboard house where Ike Eisenhower was reared...
Since the war, Shoup has held almost every key post in the corps, including those of fiscal director ('53-56), inspector general ('56-57), commander of the ist Marine Division ('57-58), of the 3rd Division ('58-59) and, most recently, of the recruit depot at Parris Island...
...Conference on Unemployment-Jobs for All." Already, some members of the Toledo delegation were looking slightly green; something they had eaten aboard their train soon laid 100 of them low, sent 28 to hospitals. Ohio's Republican Congressman William Hanes Ayres of Akron was on hand at the depot with coffee, doughnuts, and a sign saying: SEE YOUR CONGRESSMAN FIRST. HE CAN HELP YOU MOST...
...lets up about the good old days in North Africa-until one day he is charged with molesting a woman in a local cinema, and the newspaper reports that he was not a major at all but only a lieutenant, and that he spent the war in a supply depot. This makes for several other complications because the resident battle-ax (Gladys Cooper) soon starts swinging for The Major's head. She demands that he be forced to leave the hotel, even though-or perhaps because-she knows that her shy, hysterical daughter (Deborah Kerr) is in love with...
WILLIAM H. ABBEY Charlton Depot, Mass...