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Fancy Knots. When the shooting war was over, Franks ("the greatest civilian discovery of the war") could have been head of Britain's Steel Board or had his pick of many glittering big business jobs. He turned them all down to go back to Oxford as provost of his old college. But the following year, in 1947, when a stricken and bankrupt Europe was feverishly fingering the hope just held out by the Marshall Plan, Ernie Bevin, now Foreign Minister, called Franks from his cloister to head the British delegation to the 16-nation Paris conference...
...Bush who was forever getting a beating from her pupil Tom Anderson; and the hundreds of other teachers who had worked for nothing during the depression. "I thought [of] these things," writes Jesse Stuart, "and I believed deep in my heart that I was a member of the greatest profession of mankind...
From the retirement of his California ranch, the former commander of the world's greatest air force has told his story in Global Mission. Readers had better not look for the overall grasp of high-level problems that marked Robert Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins or for the tersely marshaled facts and concise, West Point English of General Dwight Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe. But Hap Arnold's military life spans the whole life of military aviation, and no one now living can speak with more authority about the growth of air power. Global Mission...
Personally, said an elegant young London editor last week, "we feel that the greatest possible service to world peace would be the exporting to the Soviet Union of large quantities of American drape shapes, with a stock of the strange ties from Charing Cross Road. Once Russia saw its population trotting about in these ridiculous costumes, its sense of humor would be restored, and the sartorially resplendent nations of East & West would stroll hand in hand into the garmental adventure of the future...
...that strange, floodlit world whose heaven is Paris and whose economic life force is the American woman's checkbook, his model was a reigning queen. She was Lisa Fonssagrives, the highest-paid, highest-praised high-fashion model in the business, considered by many of her colleagues the greatest fashion model of all time. Says Photographer Horst Paul Horst, who helped her get started: "She has one of the most beautiful bodies I have ever seen...