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...being pressured by inspired "leaks" about the future of Charles E. Bohlen, bright star State Department careerman of the Roosevelt and Truman administrations, longtime (1953-57) Ambassador to Russia, and since 1957 U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines. His friends let out word that Bohlen would soon come home from Manila to head a State Department policy-planning group dealing with Soviet problems. A later story from unnamed sources in Manila said that "Chip"' Bohlen, 54, eligible for retirement at the maximum allowable pension, would quit the Foreign Service unless he got just such a Washington...
...stood of Joe McCarthy and other powerful Senate Republicans (who grumbled that Russian-speaking Bohlen was a key figure at Yalta) to get him nominated in 1953 to Moscow. At week's end, after he simmered down, Ike by cable fired off statements of confidence to Bohlen in Manila. Chances were good that personable Chip Bohlen would eventually get his Washington job despite new grumbling from Republicans on Capitol Hill...
After leaving Columbia, Terrell wintered in perfume, summered in stock, with friends' money opened the famed Bucks County (Pa.) Playhouse in 1939. During World War II he piloted transport planes until injured in a crash, then managed U.S.O. troupes through the South Pacific. In Manila once, he found no theater available, asked to use a tent. The Army said no; but the idea lingered...
...costume changes (including a native dress for each land she would visit). But she had little time to enjoy them. Hardly was she through with her style show when she had to hop a plane to repeat the same act in Tokyo, then on to Osaka, Hong Kong, Manila, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Honolulu and San Francisco...
...Manila...