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...Discreet East-West negotiations were begun. The Russian zone authorities found it in their hearts to let Crete go to Berlin. For 383 hours, Knautschke and Crete were kept in adjoining cages, permitted only to engage in some sedate nose-rubbing. Then they were allowed to meet at closer quarters. When Crete goes back to Leipzig, the Russian zone will get her baby, but another Leipzig female may be coming up for Knautschke...
...Edgartown, Mass., Emily Post came to grips with a new problem in etiquette: what does the well-bred hostess do when a guest pilfers a prized gewgaw from the breakfast tray? A few days after Hostess Post's loss at her country home, a discreet item appeared in the local newspaper, touching on the "unpleasant situation" and appealing gently for its correction by "the person, perhaps young and certainly thoughtless, who yielded to impulse...
...bachelor who receives visitors at odd hours, La Pipelette can keep a discreet tongue in her head-for a consideration, of course. For the brave young couple on the fifth floor struggling along on nothing a year-well, La Pipelette might act as baby-sitter for one evening, and there would be no charge...
Waiting for the Mob. In the first story, Young Man With A Future, a discharged army sergeant, a simple, decent young engineer, comes to Shanghai from Tokyo, where a buddy had already given him a discreet but troubling shot of Communist propaganda. In a rush of guilt, he concludes that the U.S. is on the wrong side, that the enemies of Chiang Kai-shek ("It is not so important whether we are Communists or not") are the hope of China. He flirts with the idea of helping them, but he is too confused to make up his mind. Even...
...Before the outbursts had subsided, Johnson plunged head first into more trouble. Johnson, who just can't seem to stay away from the press, or be discreet in front of it, let it be known that he had decided on the successor to retiring Army Secretary Kenneth Royall -though it is the President's prerogative to name his own official family. Johnson's choice was 58-year-old Curtis Ernest Calder, the $75,000-a-year board chairman of Manhattan's Electric Bond and Share Co. As soon as Calder could tidy up his affairs, probably...