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...from Douglas MacArthur's day. Publicly, the White House made a great show of leaving MacArthur unanswered. But privately, through the device of a leak to the New York Times, Harry Truman struck back. It seemed to be the opening of a battle in which each side would lean on documents marked "Secret" to make its case before...
Marriage: MacArthur was married in 1922 at the age of 42 to Mrs. Louise Cromwell Brooks, the daughter of Philadelphia's wealthy socialite Mrs. Edward Stotesbury. The marriage ended in divorce in 1929. In 1937, he married lean Marie Faircloth of Murfreesboro, Tenn., a quiet, dark-haired woman 19 years his junior. The MacArthurs have one son, 13-year-old Arthur MacArthur...
...driving Stanky spirit is one big reason why the New York Giants may be a serious pennant contender again this year, for the first time in thirteen lean seasons. During the last half of last season, while the Philadelphia Whiz Kids were staggering erratically to the pennant (won m the last game of the season), Durocher's Giants were playing the best ball (50 victories in 72 games) in the National League. Durocher sees no reason why the Giants should not continue that pennant-winning pace. "We're a far better ball club now than at this time...
Italy's Pier Angeli, a slender, childlike girl of 18, plays a war bride with no makeup or fancy hairdo, and nothing of what Hollywood knows as sex appeal. Her lean, pretty face radiates something much rarer in Hollywood leading ladies: a lucid innocence through which emotions flow without let or artifice...
Daughter of a well-to-do Roman architect and engineer, Pier got her look of lean intensity from a spell of malnutrition late in World War II. Though she was never trained as an actress, her delicate features and impressive sincerity made her the "discovery" of three different moviemakers in search of talent. The most recent, Teresa's Scripter Stewart Stern, came across her in Rome after she had made her first movie (Tomorrow Is Too Late) in Italy. After he met her, Director Zinneman thought "she was one of the few genuine film talents I have ever known...