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...those who fear or are dismayed by the FBI. How many yards of its magnificent files were filled with just such stuff, and the unsupported malice of gossipy neighbors who reported that the couple across the hall liked to run around in the nude, read the New Republic and entertain Negroes? In a nation where nobody loves a cop, much less a snooper or an informer, the further question arose: Had the U.S. created a budding Gestapo...
...armchair, Feldmans told of the plight of 80,000 Latvian D.P.s who would like to come to the U.S. The State Department put Feldmans' name on the official list of diplomats. Mr. Feldmans did not call on the President, but it was announced unofficially that Mrs. Truman would entertain him at tea at Blair House, along with other freshman members of the capital's diplomatic corps, as soon as the fall season opens. Presumably, Washington's Russian diplomats were already feeling the first hot flushes of Feldmanitis...
Although social life ordinarily is pretty dull in Luxembourg, there was nothing to stop Perle from throwing some of her big parties there (to entertain, she will have to add considerable of her own money to the $15,000 or $20,000 salary of a Minister). Since Mrs. Mesta is a widow, protocol officers were spared one problem: when it comes to table-setting, there is no place to put a Minister's husband...
...students who might entertain the idea of trying to establish contact with the boys taking the exam early this morning in New York will be disappointed. The Columbia grad student who will proctor the exam is under strict orders not to let his charges out of his sight until he has accompanied them to their boat...
...notice to both houses of Parliament). She may go where she likes (provided it is decorous, proper, dignified and offends nobody). As heir to the throne, Elizabeth will continue to carry the heavy share of chairmanships, launchings and dedications. By day, Margaret will have plenty of time to entertain girl friends at gossip fests in her rooms at the palace. Of an evening, she may go with a few carefully chosen girls and young men to the theater and a nightclub. The one thing she must not do is act like a commoner...