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Change the Pictures. At week's end, the fledgling government seemed to be hitting its stride. In the executive mansion, President Soekarno began receiving the new envoys to Indonesia. The first to present his credentials was Economic Expert Dr. Hans M. Hirschfeld, the Dutch Government's choice as the first Netherlands High Commissioner to the United States of Indonesia. The second was the U.S.'s bulky, soft-spoken H. Merle Cochran. For 18 months, Cochran had been the moving force on the United Nations Commission for Indonesia, had skillfully steered the Dutch and Indonesian negotiators through...
WESTWARD HA! (159 pp.)-S. J. Perelman & Albert Hirschfeld-Simon & Schuster...
Perelman was just leaving a little specialty shop in the Forties (he had been buying "a black girdle with rose panels and a bias-cup brassière" for his mother) when he ran slap into Cartoonist Al Hirschfeld-a man whose "cunning ferret eyes" share pride of place with a beard as frothy as "a zabaglione." The pair of them were eventually put under contract to make a trip round the world for Holiday magazine, and the result, excellently illustrated by Artist Hirschfeld, is one of the funniest books that Perelman has written. Subtitled "Around the World...
...stop was a world-famous shrine in Camden, N.J. named Joe's Coffee Pot, where the plane was grounded. Second stop was Hollywood, where Traveler Perelman had scrimped a living in the '30s. " 'I'd rather be embalmed here than any place I know,' [Hirschfeld] said slowly. He turned up the collar of his trench coat and lit a cigarette, and in the flare of the match I saw that his tiny pig eyes were bright with tears...
...clanging . . . he may have said girders"). "Every sort of object imaginable was being offered by street hawkers . . . noodles, poodles . . . leeches, breeches, peaches . . . roots, boots, flutes, coats, shoats, stoats." Perelman tossed the children "a few worn gold pieces which were of no further use to me," and then he and Hirschfeld took a brief ride in rickshas...