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...SHAPE correspondents' luncheon last week, the guest of honor, hard-boiled Marshal Alphonse-Pierre Juin, was asked: "Are you considering becoming a candidate for President of the Republic?" Replied Juin, the only living Marshal of France, and NATO's central European chief: "I should not give up my title as Marshal for the sake of another which carries with it more tiresome drudgery than real power." By teatime the remark had reached the ears of President Vincent Auriol, who chooses not to run again when his term expires next January. "Well," the President snapped to his Cabinet...
...hung up. In spite of the denials, the report quickly spread all over Teheran last week, for if there was a diplomat with cause to be upset by life's inscrutable tricks, it was Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Lavrentiev, 49. When he went to Belgrade as ambassador in 1946, Marshal Tito was the prize exhibit in the Kremlin's gallery of satellite chiefs, and Diplomat Lavrentiev was in a cushy spot. Then Tito made his break with the Kremlin. (Shortly before the break, a brash Yugoslav diplomat asked Foreign Minister Molotov: "Why have you sent us such a stupid...
...Dean Marshal L. Scott of the Presbyterian Institute of Industrial Relations started a ministers-in-industry course in Pittsburgh, and brought it last year to the McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago. Since Dean Scott's course began, similar programs have been organized in Boston, New Haven and San Anselmo, Calif...
...Hadj Thami el Mezouari el Glaoui, the aged, cunning and ruthless Pasha of Marrakech. Once a bandit in the southern Moroccan desert, El Glaoui began helping the French in 1912, the first year of the protectorate; he sheltered some French citizens from possible slaughter by rebels. The late great Marshal Lyautey was so pleased that he put the onetime bandit in charge of his Moroccan troops. Eventually El Glaoui became the local ruler of a large territory, and acquired a considerable fortune from mine dividends, taxes and miscellaneous "gifts...
Ebensten sets out to tell how tattooing "has developed during the 4,000 years that separate the butterfly on Field Marshal Montgomery's right arm and the tattoos discovered on the skins of Egyptian mummies dating to 2000 B.C." In the year 787, a Roman Catholic council forbade all forms of it in Europe. It thrived among the savages. Captain Cook reported the practice on his first voyage (1768-1771), introducing the Tahitian word tatau-to mark...