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...Word Unspoken. The Western plan was presented to the 60 nations of the U.N. with flourishes - in a formal American-British-French resolution, in a speech by President Truman from Wash ington, and finally in a cool, point-by-point Assembly address by U.S. Secretary of State Acheson...
...speechmaking in Oklahoma City, called the President the "Roy Riegels* of American politics." Pint-sized Billy Rose, showman turned columnist, suggested W. C. Fields as presidential timber: "If we're going to have a comedian in the White House, let's have a good one." In Wash ington's Smithsonian Institution, a mysterious scratch disfigured the face of the Chief Executive's portrait...
Editor Canham writes occasional editorials but mainly keeps a hand on his paper's excellent foreign and U.S. correspondents - men and women like Wash ington Bureau Chief Roscoe Drummond and War Correspondent Edmund Stevens...
...Pamphleteers and Fascists sometimes accuse Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla of being a public-address system for Wash ington. But Author Padilla has greatly raised Mexico's world diplomatic standing. This week his fourth book, Free Men of America, was published in the U.S. Wrote Minister Padilla: "Freedom is America's vocation. . . ." To him, democracy is good "not because it makes no mistakes . . . but because it can remedy them by peaceful means...
Last week Whirlaway and Our Boots met in the mile-and-an-eighth Blue Grass Stakes, traditional Derby preview, at Lex ington, Ky. It was a holiday in horsy Lexington. Both Whirlaway and Boots were born within whinnying distance of Lexington's courthouse. Natives, who knew that Our Boots, by Bulldog out of Maid of Arches, comes from a family notable for speed rather than staying qualities, made Whirlaway the favorite...