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...jeweler's and selected a variety of diamond baubles for Soraya. This was a consolation gift for her agreeing to remain a while in Rome for her "health." Then he boarded a chartered K.L.M. airliner for Bagdad, where he put on his gold-braided air marshal's uniform (specially flown from Teheran). He piloted his own twin-engined Beechcraft on the final leg to his capital...
Peevish old Sculptor Jacob Epstein, who gets more respectable as the years go by, was not surprised when a committee of distinguished fellow Britons unanimously selected him as the man best qualified to create a memorial to South Africa's late Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts. Said he: "I deserve...
...Maine coast, campaigning for the governorship, won election by 80,000 votes. In World War II, as an Army colonel, he accompanied General Maxwell D. Taylor on a daring mission to German-occupied Rome (1943) to secure a pledge of loyalty from Dictator Mussolini's aging successor, Marshal Pietro Badoglio, 20 hours before the Allied invasion of Italy...
...weak to face down Marshal Tito by themselves, the embittered Italians have come to regard the West's unredeemed pledge as no more than a cynical campaign trick. That feeling hurt De Gasperi in last month's election. Trieste is a symbol as compelling as reunification to Germans, or 54-40 to Americans of the 1840s. To Italians the word packs an emotional wallop out of all proportion to its economic importance...
Nearing the end of a three-month globe-trot, Eleanor Roosevelt, 68, spent a weekend with Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, 61, at his summer retreat on the Adriatic, later told how fine it was that Yugoslavia had "so young-feeling a man" as its leader. "His sort of whimsy and youth is a fortunate thing for the nation...