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...fourth time Eleanor Roosevelt headed the annual Book of Knowledge list of the world's brainiest women. On the list for the third time: Senator Margaret Chase Smith, Anatomist Dr. Florence Reno Sabin, New York Times Foreign Correspondent & Columnist Anne O'Hare McCormick, Mme. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, former Indian Ambassador to the U.S. On the list for the second time: Correspondent Marguerite Higgins. Among those who made it for the first time: Social Worker Katharine Lenroot, Physicist Lise Meitner, Princess Elizabeth, Assistant Defense Secretary Anna Rosenberg, Actress Judy (Born Yesterday) Holliday, Mrs. Ogden Reid, publisher...
Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, India's ambassador to both the U.S. and Mexico, was working on the last few pages of her autobiography, Sunlight and Shadow, signed another contract for a book on India's problems, and hoped for time some day to do one on "the history of diplomacy...
Recently, some of the princes joined Bombay society for one of their last flings. The occasion was the splendid wedding of 19-year-old Prince Karam Singh, heir to the Maharaja of Kashmir, and 16-year-old Princess Yashorajya Lakshmi, doe-eyed granddaughter of the hereditary Premier of Nepal (see cut). The wedding was carried out according to ancient Vedic rites, and lasted all day. In the evening the bride's father gave a huge reception on the brightly lit grounds of his mansion, served rare pates, caviar and native delicacies. Republican India will not see many more such...
Having disposed of geographical matters, the Colonel tackled social ones. He told his race-conscious audience that he considered President Truman's civil-rights proposals "a new form of slavery." When a reporter asked him whether Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, India's ambassador to the U.S., was welcome at the White House,* McCormick snorted: "I wouldn't know. I am not welcome there myself...
Next day, Nehru heard his sister, Ambassador to the U.S. Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, report to Parliament that many Americans were irked by what they considered the Prime Minister's inconsistency on the Communist question. Nehru interrupted. "I am not prepared to be anti-this or anti-that," he cried angrily. "I may be soft to some, hard to others at times, but I dislike being pushed about or bullied . . . Some on the Anglo-American side call me a Communist, while some on the other side call me an imperialist . . . People ask me: 'Are you this...