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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week after graduation ('30), he married Philadelphia Socialite Mary Todhunter Clark (sniffed a Main Line matron: "A young New York man is marrying into the Clark family"). Wedding present from the groom's parents: a year's trip around the world. Armed with letters of introduction to government officials and Standard Oil executives, Nelson and "Tod" Rockefeller journeyed from Europe to India to the Far East, spent most of their honeymoon discussing world problems with Prime Ministers and potentates...
Midnight Ride. As we drove in the moonlight down Green Valley, which is one of Quemoy's main targets, three air bursts from Red artillery exploded 200 yards to our left. Communist artillery was going over us to the beach, and behind us into Green Valley. The driver tramped on the gas, and soon our weapons carrier was careening down the blacked-out road at 55 m.p.h. Luckily, there was no one coming the other...
...Form. In their multimirrored rococo main studio in Manhattan, Arthur Murray, 63, and Kathryn Murray, 52, last week exhibited a new application form for membership in the International Arthur Murray Lifetime Club. Keyed to worldwide expansion of studios, the application is designed to reduce the risk of suits. It asks students if they "enjoy exchange lessons," i.e., dancing with other than their regular instructors, thus proposes to discourage pupil-teacher crushes. Twice the form insists that membership must be within the pupil's means. Actually there have been a number of unpublicized incidents in which unhappy life-timers...
...national pavilions do remarkably well at reflecting the national characters of various countries. The French pavilion is cluttered and marvelously disorganized--as if France sent one of everything that exists in the country. Britain's exhibit is solemn and stately. The main hall resembles Westiminister Abbey, the lights are subdued. There are no crowds and everyone files through in order. The guards at the door seem borrowed from the Buckingham Palace brigade, but they turn their heads and say a word of greeting to an occasional young girl. The hard-working Dutch were ambitious enough to build a model dike...
...professors, who were secondary to the main purpose of the discussion, became the central point in a newspaper story yesterday morning. One newspaper stated that the "hush-hush conference" was one of "an interesting series of events" "behind last Tuesday's switch in China policy by...Dulles...