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...Then the Edens were off to 10 Downing Street for a familial champagne lunch with the Prime Minister's family. Next morning, with four modest suitcases and ?25 ($70) apiece (the pittance allowed by the British Treasury to Britons vacationing abroad*), the Edens caught the midmorning plane for Lisbon...
Exactly six months ago, the U.S. and its principal allies at Lisbon initialed the master blueprint for European defense. By the end of 1952, they would mobilize the 50 combat divisions that Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower considered the rock-bottom minimum needed to contain a Soviet attack. During 1953-54, if all went well, NATO's armies would be doubled, its air force would reach near-parity with the Red air force. All did not go well...
Signed & Sealed. In Lisbon. Policeman Rogerio Gracinha arrested himself for gambling away money entrusted to his care, methodically drew up a full confession, then locked himself in jail...
...captain was John C. Burn, hero of an earlier Pan American crash. When his plane went down in the Tagus River near Lisbon in 1943, he rescued Singer Jane Froman from drowning despite his own broken back. The two were married in 1948, the bride still on crutches. When reporters brought the news of last week's crash to her Manhattan apartment, she cried: "It can't happen to us again." Then she learned that her husband was hospitalized in San Juan with minor injuries, and flew to Puerto Rico for a bedside reunion...
...entertain servicemen overseas Songstress Froman suffered near-fatal injuries in a 1943 Lisbon Clipper crash. Two years later, after 14 operations, she returned to Europe propped on crutches and toured more than 30,000 miles to sing for wounded G.I.s...