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Before him now lies Britain's top field command: commander in chief of the Army of the Rhine. A lean, austere martinet who characterizes himself as "a professional soldier ... no politician," Templer had expected no fond farewells in Malaya. Yet all the way to the airport from his gubernatorial mansion, his Rolls Royce had been mobbed by cheering, affectionate Asians: Malays, Chinese and Indians. From the turbaned representatives of nine Malayan potentates, Templer got a silver cigar box. On his wrist he wore a bamboo bracelet, given by the aborigines of far-off Negri Sembilan, to ward off evil...
...reached the barrio at 6:35 a.m. If I failed to return by 9 a.m., the troops would blow the place to smithereens. Taruc was waiting at the foot of Mt. Arayat, an extinct volcano. His lean figure was surrounded by the people of the barrio; like them, he wore a grey peasant shirt, brown pants and a wide-brimmed straw hat. The only question I asked was: "Do you accept the President's terms?" Taruc said: "I accept." He shook my hands warmly and said farewell to the barrio folk, many of them weeping. Minutes later we were...
...PRESIDENT MAGSAYSAY, but at the Philippine army's Camp Murphy the situation looked somewhat different. Taruc was installed in quarters usually reserved for VIPs. A Cabinet officer lent him a flowered shirt, photographers had a field day, soldiers brought in fans to keep him cool. Watching the lean Communist leaning easily on a windowsill, first-naming an Under Secretary, and running his delicate hands through the black curls of his 18-year-old son Romeo, an officer snapped: "You would think he was the head of state waiting to talk to another head of state...
...nation's most venerable poets, New England's patriarchal Robert (Birches) Frost, 79, and the Midwest's lean-jawed Carl (Chicago) Sandburg, 76, looking more than ever like blood brothers, showed up at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria for some new laurels. To them and eight other U.S. authors went awards from the Limited Editions Club for having written "books which seem most likely to survive as classics...
...They're trying to make a hero out of me, and I'm embarrassed," wrote Major George A. Davis from Korea to his wife Doris. A lean, dark Texan, he had been the "best all-round boy" in Morton (Texas) high school, later in the Pacific flew 266 missions and shot down seven Japanese planes. In Korea Davis downed 14 Red planes in all. On Feb. 10, 1952 he dived into a formation of Red MIGs, shot down two and was gunning for another when, mortally hit, his Sabre jet crashed. For his valiant last fight Pilot Davis...