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...Lean, greying Norman Armour stepped off a plane in Washington, with Madrid behind him and retirement ahead. Thus a distinguished diplomatic career neared its close...
...eight years the students and their professors, who trekked from Peiping. Tientsin and other northern cities, had lived a lean and patient life in Kunming. When V-J day brought not peace but internal strife, they stirred restlessly...
Today, at 38, he is still lean, balding, a little on the gaunt side. He works long hours, is tired when he gets home to his suite at the Park Lane, and to his trim-figured, brunette second wife, Lorelle, 33. Their living room has an impressive assortment of drawings and photographs of Lorelle, accumulated in their twelve years of married life...
Last week Iconoclast Johnson, now 70, retired. His successor-"a man after my own heart"-is another farm boy: lean, 49-year-old Brynjolf Jacob (Bryn J. for short) Hovde (rhymes with loved a). Bryn J. has, among other things, toured ,the Chautauqua lecture circuit, taught at the University of Pittsburgh-where he got into more than one ruckus because his politics were to the left of the trustees' -and run the State Department's Division of Cultural Cooperation. Says he: "I like to think of a university as a storm center. I like people to take...
Last week the New Yorker was deep in a lengthy, serial exploration of this creepy process. A composite "profile" of the Digest and tall, lean DeWitt Wallace, its editor and co-owner, had already run to three dart-throwing installments and 14,000 words. How much more was to come was an office secret, but John Bainbridge, the 32-year-old author, said there was only a thin chance that it would break the six-installment record devoted to another Ross anathema, Walter Winchell...