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...males of 1950," selected by women fashion experts, included Henry Ford II ("the young look"), Cinemactor Robert Montgomery ("the handsome look") and Henry J. Kaiser ("the executive look"). Included in the ladies' best-dressed list for the first time: Gloria Swanson, Faye Emerson and Sloan Simpson O'Dwyer...
...women in the unofficial welcoming party, emerging with two bouquets and smeared lipstick. Somewhat eclipsed, the new ambassador listened to a brief welcome from Alfonso Castro Valle, sub-chief of protocol. Then from his light grey suit he fished a diplomatic little speech of his own. Said O'Dwyer, in Spanish that had gone a bit rusty since his student days in Salamanca: "I feel deeply honored that I have been chosen to succeed the distinguished and able former ambassador, Mr. Walter Thurston, and I am gratified that he is remaining in Mexico* where I hope I may call...
Later, at the newly refurbished ambassadorial residence, O'Dwyer cautiously told interviewers that 1) Mexico is a great country, and 2) bullfighting is a great sport. Until he presents credentials to President Aleman this week, O'Dwyer will confine himself to such pleasantries...
Regardless of the U.S. political maneuvering which brought him his new post, Bill O'Dwyer seemed a happy choice for a sunny job. Mexicans were complimented by his political prominence in the U.S., pleased that he is a Catholic, and tickled with his pretty wife and his appreciation of bullfighting. In the bullfighters' Café Tupinamba, a torero seriously explained, "A good fan of the bulls cannot be an imperialist."'And the ballad singers in buses and bars spread the news in a hastily composed corrido...
...Gentle, capable Careerman Thurston, not pleased at having been shuffled out of the Mexican post to make room for O'Dwyer, has retired, at 54, to Cuernavaca, there to live with his ailing mother...