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Through the wide, wild sweep of Kashmir's back country, British Author H. E. Bates has followed Correspondent Crane up a familiar narrative trail. Its destination: that old tried-and-tired Grand Hotel situation, into which the invading Pathans burst as uninvited guests. Some cleanly chronicled violence whets The...
Thomas Carey Hennings Jr., 47, of St. Louis, who had to buck Harry Truman's hand-picked candidate (lackluster State Senator Emery Allison) in the primaries and hard-campaigning Senator Forrest Donnell in the finals. An ardent internationalist, Hennings campaigned against Donnell's dogged opposition to foreign aid...
Two ex-RFC chairmen, Texas' hard-fisted Jesse Jones and pince-nezed Publisher Eugene Meyer of the Washington Post, seemed to think the agency was out of date. Jones had recommended "a decent burial" for RFC. Last week Eugene Meyer's Post added pointedly: "The time has come...
For years, redhaired, two-fisted Luisa Maria, Duchess of Valencia, had been the passionate leader of Avanzadilla Monarquica, most active faction among Spanish monarchists. Conservative royalists called her too "noisy" and undiplomatic. Time & again, Franco's police fined or jailed her. She was so used to being arrested that...
But nobody struck at red-ink budgeting harder than General Electric's big-fisted President Charles E. Wilson. "No one in the seat of authority in our Government has yet shown any real intention of paying off [the debt]," said Wilson at a dinner in Philadelphia. Wilson called such...