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...circumstance which alarmed the capital. But the general has complete faith in his pilot, Captain William Draper. Once, during the European tour, when bad weather set in between Rome and Luxembourg, Draper flew up to Luxembourg and made two practice landings before he went back to get his boss, waiting in Rome: "It's O.K., general, let's go." They went. In Copenhagen, Draper landed Eisenhower's plane under a 100-ft. ceiling...
Irving Berlin's newest offering Call Me Madam, features noisy Ethel Merman in an apparent take-off on Perle Mesta, current ambassador to Luxembourg. Berlin's score has been effectively combined with a Lindsay and Crouse book to make one of the top musicals of this, or any other, season. (Imperial...
...Luxembourg: Music. Luxembourg, Ike's next stop, was a pleasant interlude. Ike greeted an oldtime Washington friend, Party-Giver Perle Mesta, now U.S. Minister to Luxembourg: "What are you doing out here in this cold, Perlie?" At his ninth NATO capital in 13 days, Ike was pale and tired; he put off an appointment with Premier Pierre Dupong, took a nap after lunch, instead. Constellation crew members reported that the general constantly pored over documents during flights. "He doesn't even take time out to look out the window unless we point something out to him," an officer...
...Luxembourg did. The government told Ike it would double its present 2,280-man army from two to four battalions, offered him its big steel plants to produce NATO munitions...
This week Ike was scheduled to climb back into his plane, head for NATO Capital Lisbon. After that, Rome, Luxembourg, Heidelberg, back to Paris, then Reykjavik and Ottawa. On Jan. 29 he would return to Washington, report on the prospects of Western defense...