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...Figurehead. In Brisbane, Australia, Mrs. Gertrude Riordan, 65, was swept off her feet by a train at a grade crossing and carried a mile on the cowcatcher to the next station, where she stepped off and said: "My only thought was how silly I must look...
Braaten writes from Madrid, "I couldn't figure out any other way to get an egghead, a figurehead, and a hardheaded fund-raiser into the same cartoon. If this looks as though it were done between trains in a dingy Bilbao hotel room lit by a single naked bulb, it's because it was. Of course, it would have looked the same if it had been done in a north-lighted studio overlooking the Seine, but a guy has to have some excuse...
...completely new staff has been appointed for the paper. The editor has become just a figurehead, his job consisting of only typing the stencils for the mimeographed paper. He may also arrange the articles...
...titles). Malenkov has been careful to find other jobs for most of them, although some seem to be out in the cold. He also tried to take care of the army, the likeliest center of opposition, by kicking Marshal Voroshilov upstairs to Chairman of the Supreme Soviet Presidium (a figurehead job usually called "President of the Soviet Union" in the West), and by appointing as Deputy Minister of War Marshal Zhukov, Russia's greatest military hero of World War II. Finally. Malenkov took pains to hand out plums to national minorities, e.g., a comrade from Azerbaijan was made...
...Allied generals assumed that von Rundstedt was masterminding the job. Actually, it was conceived and timed by Adolf Hitler, and mainly executed by Model, von Manteuffel and the SS's tough-guy General Sepp Dietrich. Von Rundstedt knew in advance that it would fail; by then a figurehead, he said, "My only prerogative was to change the guard at the gate." Six days before V-E day, the British captured him at Bad Tölz near Munich. They held him in custody for several years, intending to try him for war crimes, freed...