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...tiny veranda of his two-room, wattle-and-daub hut outside Port-au-Prince, a grizzled ex-U.S. Navy pharmacist's mate downed a tumbler of mahogany-colored Haitian rum. Through the low-hanging hibiscus and poinsettia came the first tentative beating of evening drums. To Stanley Henry ("Doc") Reser, Haiti's leading U.S born voodoo- practitioner, the sound was a call to ceremonies at the nearby temple in honor of Ogoun Ferreille, god of war and ironworkers...
...SECRETARY OF STATE: 1) John J. Mc-Cloy, ex-U.S. High Commissioner for Germany and old Ike friend from the days when McCloy was Assistant Secretary of War under Henry Stimson; 2) New York's Governor Tom Dewey (who may prefer to serve out his term in Albany) ; 3) Statesman John Foster Dulles, one of Eisenhower's foreign-policy advisers during the campaign; 4) ex-ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman...
While Detroit Edison's farsightedness has paid off, President Cisler and Chairman Prentiss M. Brown, ex-U.S. Senator from Michigan, are already looking 30 years ahead. Says Cisler: "Our plans call for more than tripling our capacity...
...Heard its foreign relations committee recommend contempt citations against three key witnesses who refused to talk about Communist associations during the McCarthy hearings. The three: ex-U.S. Communist Boss Earl Browder, Commie Angel Frederick Vanderbilt Field, ex-Editor Philip Jaffe of Amerasia...
...cryptic statement last week, Chaplin's office announced that U.A. had been sold. The buyer was a syndicate "of Eastern investors," whose front man was Paul V. McNutt, ex-U.S. High Commissioner to the Philippines and former chairman of the War Manpower Commission. Neither McNutt, Mary or Charlie would disclose the terms, but Hollywood gossip was that McNutt & friends: 1) had agreed to pay some $5,000,000 for the company; 2) hoped to produce films on their own; and 3) were dickering to hire independent Producer Stanley (The Men) Kramer (see CINEMA) to boss production...