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...child was the first born in the big D.P. camp in Seoul, Korea, and the parents called it Mi Hua (Little Flower) in honor of UNRRA's tough and kind-hearted boss. But 7,000 miles away, in Washington, Little Flower LaGuardia last week faced more headaches than honors...
Last week, LaGuardia fired UNRRA's Shanghai boss, Ben Kizer, and sent in able Frank Ray, UNRRA's Far Eastern director, to tide Shanghai over the emergency...
After calls on President Truman, acting Secretary of State Acheson, and UNRRA Director LaGuardia, nattily dressed Roxas held a press conference at Blair-Lee House. Said he, vigorously exhaling cigaret smoke through his nostrils: "Collaboration is no longer a political issue in the Philippines...
...Cried LaGuardia: "Availabilities, future commitments, hopes, statistics, quantities, are no good to hungry people. . . . These figures speak for themselves. . . . People surely are going to die unless UNRRA gets the cooperation for which I have begged and pleaded...
...Fiorello LaGuardia was back in New York's City Hall, looking natural but a little handsomer than life (see cut). The city had appropriated $2,500 for the portrait by New York Times Artist-Interviewer S. J. Woolf. If the art commission approves the picture, the Little Flower will be the first ex-mayor to hang in the Hall while still alive...