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...officer in charge was Lieut. General Panos Kalogeropoulos, commander of the Second Corps, a tranquil, French-trained officer who loved his garden and allowed his staff to bring their wives and children along on campaign. For six weeks Kalogeropoulos tended his flowers, while his dispirited troops were strictly forbidden to advance beyond their set, limited objectives...
...telephone booths, crowned Marie Van Leuren, 6 ft. 1½ in., as "Queen of Height, 1948" (see cut). ¶An ad in the Miami Herald said: "Unborn child for adoption. Call 5-4955." ¶Washington's only legitimate theater, the National, closed its doors. Actors Equity Association had forbidden its members to play there after Aug. 1 unless the theater lifted its ban against selling seats to Negroes. The National refused. It will reopen next month as a movie house...
Mexico had tried to live on a scale to which she had never been accustomed. For months the end of the boom had been in sight. In June 1947, luxury imports were forbidden. But Mexicans still wanted the good things of life. The end might be in sight, but there was no way of stopping the boom mentality until the end had actually come...
...Forbidden Subject. In Southern California, the Patton-La Beach rivalry was a high spot of every big meet. Betting odds were freely quoted in Los Angeles bars and barbershops. One night at Los Angeles' Coliseum, a record crowd of 59,661 turned out for a meet and saw Patton...
...dollar shortage, they said, had penetrated even into their forbidden city of Lhasa, which badly needs plows and sickles. To get them, Tibet wants to send the U.S. a list of oddities (e.g., lapis lazuli, musk, leopard skins) topped by 100,000 yak* tails. It happens that the U.S. is now suffering from a war-born shortage of yak tails, which can't be beat for making wigs and Santa Claus beards. U.S. wigmakers will probably grab them up fast...