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Eleanorean Durability. It was an amaz ing display, not only of the Eleanorean character and its impact upon the feverishly nationalistic (and often anti-Ameri can) East, but of Eleanorean durability. Mrs. Roosevelt is now 67 years old. She had just concluded three exhausting months as a delegate to the United Na tions session in Paris. She had flown through the Middle East with rubberneck stops at Beirut, Damascus, Amman, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. She had prefaced her tour of India with a fast week of seeing slums and soldiery, of meeting voluble Moslem dignitaries and veiled Moslem women...
...dragged them struggling into the Red ranks. Other U.S. soldiers went to the rescue with bayoneted rifles and carbines. Suddenly, from the rear of the prisoners, a homemade grenade came hurtling at the Americans. The mass of prisoners, urged on by group leaders charged the soldiers. Singing and shout ing, they swung clubs, tent poles, barbed wire flails and iron pipes...
Divorced. August A. Busch Jr., 52, hereditary president of Anheuser-Busch Inc. (Budweiser beer) ; by Elizabeth Overton Dozier Busch, 56, who also won a $1,000,000 financial settlement after charg ing him with "general indignities," desertion in 1945; after 18 years of marriage, two children; in St. Louis...
Instead of working at the hopeless task of making the Charles suitable for swimming, the Commission is construct- ing a series of public pools on the river's banks. Another constructive step which has been taken is the lessening of waste production in the woolen mills through the adoption of improved industrial techniques. But, Mr. Taylor states, this is only a minor triumph. "The sheep is a filthy animal," he says, and nothing can be done about...
Quarterbaclcing. Marshall himself, with soldierly rectitude, resisted all opportunities given him to criticize MacArthur personally. Once, when fed a question about MacArthur's judgment in launching the ill-fated Yalu offensive, Marshall commented tartly on "Monday quarterback-ing." "It is awfully easy to tell what is the right thing the day after," he said...