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...Leader of the House of Commons, a taxing triple assignment. A great -great-grandson of the last British Governor of Maryland, Eden has a proper Tory background -county aristocracy, Eton. Oxford (high honors in Oriental languages), a good army regiment, Whitehall and May fair. Respected for his integrity and his success as Britain's Foreign Secretary during the war, liked because he never gets personal or partisan, he has raised high hopes but has not yet fulfilled them. His critics consider him uninspiringly conventional...
...easels in the White House last week were ten of the rare species, a gift to the U.S. from Australian Refrigerator Manufacturer EJ.L. Hallstrom, who wanted to show his appreciation of U.S. help to Australia in World War II. The Hallstrom Audubons traveled to Australia years ago, when a great-grandson of the painter went Down Under to raise sheep. His heirs sold them to Hallstrom...
Died. Ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor August Ernst von Hohenzollern, 69, eldest son of the late Kaiser Wilhelm II, great-grandson of Britain's Queen Victoria; of a heart ailment; in Hechingen, southwest Germany. During World War I, as commander of the Reich's Fifth Army, he took a decisive beating from Marshal Pétain at Verdun, fled to ignominious exile in Holland. In 1923, he returned to Germany, hoping to succeed his deposed father, instead bowed to Hitler, joined the Nazis. Near the end of World War II, the French found Wilhelm hiding in Austria...
...thing the company has not changed: its control. It is still owned by the same family which founded it. Through three generations of Smiths, the company has been passed on from father to son. Last week the fourth generation took over. At 30, Yaleman Lloyd Bruce ("Ted") Smith, great-grandson of the founder, stepped into the presidency...
...more than 2,000 schools and colleges three times a year. Many instructors award prizes provided by TIME to the students who score, highest in each class. Some winners over the years: Gene Lauder Tunney (the ex-champ's son), John de Cuevas (John D. Rockefeller's great-grandson), Margaret Truman (see cover...