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...public life, even less was known until December 1948, when Loy W. Henderson went to Nepal as the first U.S. diplomatic representative to that kingdom. Prime Minister Rana was somewhat embarrassed to learn that Minister Henderson bore a letter from President Truman addressed to the King, in person. After due deliberation, Rana decided that the privilege of getting letters from Harry Truman be added to barley-throwing and being called Sr15. Accordingly, a great durbar was held, and Minister Henderson handed the King his letter. A TIME correspondent who went in with the U.S. mission noticed that the King seemed...
...climax of her Manhattan TV show, Faye Emerson, 33, former wife of Elliott Roosevelt, had a treat for her audience. Clutching the hand of beaming Pianist-Disc-Jockey Lyle ("Skitch") Henderson, 31 (see cut), she faced the cameras and confided: "I would like you to meet the man I am going to marry. I thought this was a good way to announce...
...Ways & Means Committee reopens its hearings on the proposed tax. Last week Ruml announced that more than 100 top businessmen had joined in forming the Business Committee on Emergency Corporate Taxation, enlisted the help of such onetime New Dealers as ex-Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt and ex-OPAdministrator Leon Henderson to marshal their case at the hearings...
...Henderson headed for battle with 700 Marines (half the entire Corps), he tacked a laconic sign on his office door: "Gone to Florida to fight the Indians. Will be back when the war is over." When Henderson retired after 38 years as commandant, he was so accustomed to living in the commandant's house that he tried to will it to his heirs...
...prove that the show could have gone on without these tools of the trade, Henderson disclosed that the band will perform a "musical drill at half-time tomorrow with no instruments whatsoever...