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...fishing village of Katakalon, the night before, officers of the Greek (ex-British) destroyer Hastings had invited British officials and Anglo-American newsmen to an "Olympic torch party" in a restaurant. The party was gay. Lieut. Colonel John Casey, a pink-faced, ginger-mustached member of the British mission, was singing a Greek ballad, Mavra Matya (Black Eyes) when a burst of Communist machine-gun fire thudded into the building. One gendarme was killed trying to douse the lights; the others got down under the tables. Casey went on singing in the darkness to cover the departure of two Greeks...
Last week, in the $1.5 million chapel where Hummers meet for prayer and hymns, but where no minister has ever set foot, Harry Truman ended his visit to the Hum. After a happy day "knee-high in boys," he had tried Hum-Muds-the college's special ginger cakes. Then he ad-libbed nostalgically of the days when he was a boy and milked cows, split wood, cleaned oil lamps. Things were different now: "this great country has only started on its career . . . Oh," cried the President, "I wish I were 18 . . . I wish I had the same opportunities...
...lectured at top European universities (Oxford, Heidelberg, Louvain, Milan). The fall of France found him on the U.S. university lecture circuit (Chicago, Harvard, Columbia, Princeton). He settled down to a Greenwich Village exile, walked daily to mass at old St. Joseph's, consumed quantities of peanuts and ginger ale, and held a Sunday salon frequented by savants and celebrities. Said Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr: "Maritain [belongs] to that small company of great spirits in any age from whom one may learn...
Except for General Motors' C. E. Wilson ($303,990) and Great Lakes Steel Corp.'s George R. Fink ($275,000), the rest of the big money earners were Hollywood workers. As usual, Hollywood has the nation's highest paid women; Ginger Rogers ($292,159) was ahead of Deanna Durbin by $30,000. (Betty Grable, last year's winner, was farther down the list with...
Before the opening, there had been a few false starts (Jane Wyman set her watercolor to dry in the sun, but an unexpected shower sprinkled it away). There were also some explosions of temperament (Ginger Rogers refused to let one cherished piece of her sculpture out of the house). But he-man Fred MacMurray double-wrapped his watercolor (Red Chimney) and sneaked it in the back door of the hall; Sigrid Gurie presented a painting signed "Sigrid" (after all, Van Gogh signed his "Vincent"); Mrs. William Powell, whose husband may currently be seen in Life with Father, offered a still...