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Kentuck Wesleyan 71, Georgetown...
Last week, tall, elegant and unruffled, the Secretary was back at his daily routine. From his red brick house in Georgetown, he either rode to work in a department limousine, or walked with little Justice Felix Frankfurter, his onetime Harvard Law School teacher and close friend. In his fifth-floor office in the new State Department Building in Washington's Foggy Bottom, he tried not to listen to the criticisms, read key telegrams, listened to briefings, held conferences and with his blue, slightly protuberant eyes, studied the state of his foreign policy...
...Georgetown one evening last week, wealthy Mrs. Alf Heiberg, whose second husband of four was General Douglas MacArthur, sat listening to a radio program on civil defense. The longer Mrs. Heiberg listened, the more alarmed she became. The next morning she scouted Washington, D.C. and found a contractor who could build her a bomb shelter with thick walls and heavy lead doors. Explained Mrs. Heiberg: "After all, if they attacked Washington I'm sure they'd aim a bomb at a former wife of General MacArthur, so I'm going to try to be prepared." Mrs. Heiberg...
...artist, 27-year-old Denis Williams, was no loincloth primitive. The son of a textile manufacturer, he had gone to high school in Guiana's capital city of Georgetown, worked as a postal clerk. Five years ago some of his spare-time paintings caught the eye of a British Council representative, won him an art scholarship in England...
...Asked whether the U.S. would be justified in using the atom bomb, Geopolitician Father Edmund A. Walsh, S J., of Georgetown University, said: "If the Government of the United States has sound reason to believe . . . that. . . attack is being mounted and ready ... it would appear that President Truman would be morally justified to take defensive measures proportionate to the danger. That would mean use of the atomic bomb, as no power would launch a surprise attack on the United States without an adequate supply of atomic bombs . . . Neither reason nor theology nor morals requires men or nations to commit suicide...