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...while, with occasional sojourns to the beer table for lubrication. There were nine, as I recall: Dr. John C. Wells, Jr., coronet; Dr. John Merrill, clarinet; Dr. Charles Palioca (a dentist), trombone; Dr. Thomas Peebles, drums; Richard Wigginton, bass; Raymond Boshco, piano; Guy Garland, banjo; and Bob Johnson and Doug Hayward, guitars. It was like outside the Metropole, only a little warmer...
Besides Kluflo, Draper, and O'Hiri, Getchell will start insides Ev Obregon and Steve Sewall on the line. He will have help at inside and, if needed, at halfback, grom little Doug Gifford...
Drew Pearson's "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column in the Washington Post and Times-Herald last week was full of praise for the "amazing luck or amazing insight" of True Magazine's Editor Doug Kennedy. Wrote Pearson of Kennedy: "He published the inside story of U-2 Pilot Francis Powers' flight over Russia on the same day Powers went on trial. The story gives the details of how Powers fought to get his plane started, after stalling at 70,000 feet; how he came down to thicker air around 35,000 feet, then was attacked...
Like Dulles, he was a hard worker. Once when Dulles himself telephoned the MacArthur home asking for Doug, Mrs. MacArthur mistook him for an aide and snapped irately: "MacArthur is where MacArthur always is, weekdays, Saturdays, Sundays and nights-in that office." (Within minutes, MacArthur got a telephoned order from Dulles: "Go home at once, boy. Your home front is crumbling.") Admiring Dulles' love for uncluttered action, MacArthur also acquired Dulles' conviction that the best hope for peace lay in a network of anti-Communist alliances that the Communists could clearly understand-with each nation involved being...
...Liabilities. In his pursuit of such partnership in Japan, Doug MacArthur discovered that his legacy from Uncle Douglas included some ominous liabilities. Most obvious was Article 9 of the Occupation-imposed Japanese Constitution, which reads flatly: "Land, sea and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained." With the out break of the Korean war, the U.S. did an about-face, began to pressure Japan to establish "self-defense forces." But the awkwardness of building a military machine in visible violation of the constitution has haunted every Japanese government since, has given the Socialists a powerful...