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...Dwight Eisenhower, on his fourth visit since Dulles' hernia operation disclosed persistent cancer (TIME, Feb. 23), quickly sensed his friend's low morale. He started to talk of how Dulles had provided much moral encouragement during Ike's own recoveries, from ileitis and the coronary attack. Dulles, though appreciating Ike's desire to turn the tables, doggedly murmured that perhaps, after all, he should turn his job over to a successor. Retorted Ike: "Forget about it." He praised Dulles for his remarkable progress, smoothly switched to a spirited discussion of the Berlin situation. Half an hour...
...fond of the diplomatic high life, Maggie Biddle set up a Paris salon just off the fashionable Boulevard St. Germain. The 18th century mansion was beautifully furnished, its walls hung with Renoirs, Utrillos, Constables and Gauguins; its guests dined off silver plates dipped in gold. Some of the guests: Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower, General Alfred Gruenther, Papal Legate Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (now Pope John XXIII), the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands, Cardinal Spellman, Bernard Baruch, and practically every noted French politician, artist or writer...
...smallest in the Western Hemisphere, El Salvador's President, Lieutenant Colonel Jose Maria Lemus, 47, will get what Latin American diplomats call the "full enchilada" when he arrives in Washington next week on a twelve-day state visit to the U.S. Ingredients : an airport greeting from President Dwight Eisenhower,*quarters at Blair House, a White House dinner party, an address to a joint session of Congress, a white tie dinner at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, and a Broadway ticker-tape parade, a visit to Monticello and to the New Salem, Ill. log cabin village where Lincoln lived...
...practice in 1941 to become Assistant Secretary of War, served until war's end, later became president of the World Bank, resigned to take over from General Lucius Clay as U.S. High Commissioner for Germany in 1949. In Germany he won the esteem of SHAPE'S Commander Dwight Eisenhower, has remained one of Ike's close friends...
Army General Maxwell Taylor, 57, completing a four-year tour, as Chief of Staff, will retire. Best bet to replace Taylor: General Lyman Lemnitzer, 59, Vice Chief of Staff, like Taylor a paratrooper and holder of a lustrous field record in World War II and Korea, trusted friend of Dwight Eisenhower since serving as Ike's assistant chief of staff for the North African campaign...