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Copenhagen photographers had a chance to record a farewell appearance of General Dwight Eisenhower in a smiling, gallant pose with another popular American, U.S. Ambassador to Denmark Mrs. Eugenie Anderson; then he made an impromptu speech to some 2,000 university students gathered in the courtyard of Christiansborg Palace. Said Ike, at the conclusion of his talk on the cost and importance of NATO unity: "I'm going home now, due to special circumstances...
...Beatrice are no pastoral swain and sweetheart, no parties to Shakespeare's pet formula of Boy Turns Into Girl. Theirs is a lively sniping contest full of sophisticated scorn; they are as pert, as mocking, as hoity-toity-though by no means as hardhearted-as a Restoration gallant and belle. And the trick that is played on them-of causing each to overhear how the other adores him-still has laughter...
...have long known, Maria Cosway was merely being coy: far from hating Jefferson, she was a great & good friend of the U.S. minister, and eventually her request was granted. Whatever happened to the painting afterward? Until this week, it was one of the minor puzzles in the story of gallant Mr. Jefferson's famous Paris romance...
With a Song in My Heart (20th Century-Hox) derives its drama from the gallant, real-life story of Singing-Star Jane Froman.-Unfortunately, the picture is less inspiring than its theme. Producer Lamar Trotti's screenplay is larded over with sentimentality, and Jane Froman's toughly courageous story emerges on the screen as the_ sort of life she might have led if Technicolor cameras had been looking...
Texas' Wright Patman is sometimes slyly called "the leading economist of Texarkana" (pop. 25,000), his home town. No professional economist, Lawyer Patman, a champion of small business, nevertheless makes a gallant effort to fight his way through the jungles of Treasury short-term "paper" and Federal Reserve re-discount rates. Last week, Patman's critics adopted a more respectful attitude. Patman had just published the results (in two volumes totaling 1,302 pages) of a broad poll of experts on U.S. fiscal and monetary policy...