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...youngest general on active duty in the U.S. armed forces is Command Pilot Robert F. McDermott, 41. He was 109th in his West Point Class of 409 in 1943, won the Bronze Star and Air Medal with five Oak Leaf clusters flying a P-38 with the Ninth Air Force in World War II, graduated from Harvard Business School in 1950. Not long ago he belonged to that tiny covey of airmen who might some day soar to Chief of Staff. So when he began a teaching stint at the new Air Force Academy and did well enough...
Terry Frost, 45. Abandoning the bakery where he decorated "three thousand bleeding hot cross buns at 4 o'clock in the morning," Frost went to war in 1939, spent four years in German prison camps. "I remember watching the last golden leaf fall from a tree across the wire in Bavaria," he recalls. "It was a terrible loss." Now a Cornwall man like Lanyon, he says: "I've got a feeling I'm losing the landscape. I'm getting nearer and nearer to pure abstract painting. I want conflict and contrast...
...road to teen idolatry, Margret took dancing lessons in a Chicago suburb, where the family moved from Sweden when she was six. Her debut as a radio singer was not auspicious: she lost out on an amateur hour when she was 16 to a Mexican leaf player. Leaving Northwestern University at the end of her freshman year, she got a job singing in a restaurant lounge, was heard and hired by George Burns for his Las Vegas show. Burns gave her some professional advice: get out of her new red velvet slacks and into black Lastex and cashmere...
...Taking a leaf from the book of his democratic rivals, Nikita Khrushchev went before Moscow's TV cameras for a fireside chat of his own. In the bare, floodlighted studio, he seemed a little lost without an audience, speaking more slowly, peering at his manuscript, pausing often to gulp at the glass of mineral water at his side. On disarmament, on Laos, on Communism's future, what Khrushchev said added little to the world's knowledge of the Kremlin's inner thinking. But on the subject of Berlin, his voice had a new take...
Another reader reported that Sanford's Xit, an ink eradicator, was also fine for removing banana-leaf stains, a common island washday problem. When this intelligence, duly confirmed by a home test, appeared in "Readers' Exchange," it generated such a demand that the U.S. manufacturer had to fly in an emergency planeload-which vanished in a day. So many similar hints poured in ("For those who have no dustpan. Wet the edge of a newspaper. Place it on the floor and sweep residue onto this"), that Columnist Heloise soon had a reputation as a household authority...