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Man's World. In Philadelphia, the police department had to return 21 snub-nosed, .38-cal. revolvers it had ordered for its policewomen, after it discovered that the ladies were not strong enough to pull the triggers.
G.I. Revenge. At Army bases, hundreds pressed against the barbed-wire fences, waving MPCs and begging soldiers to sell them anything from bedsheets to underwear. Outside of Seoul's white-bricked PX, runny-nosed Korean shoeshine boys wailed far into the night: "Hey, G.I., no momma, no poppa, you...
"He came out of the Derby Trial real good," said Trainer Willie Molter. "He's a tough little guy. I hope that race helped him, because he needed tightening. But I'll be doggoned if I wanted it that tight." Willie Molter was talking about a spunky little...
Married. Jackie Cooper, 32, ball-nosed onetime cinemoppet (Skippy, The Champ) turned Broadway actor (King of Hearts') ; and Barbara Kraus, 26, a Manhattan ad-agency production assistant; he for the third time, she for the first; in Washington, B.C.
To a hawk-nosed French colonel in his sandbagged command post came an unexpected message from Washington. "In common with millions of my countrymen," wrote President Eisenhower last week, "I salute the gallantry and stamina of the commander and soldiers who are defending Dienbienphu." Eisenhower also had a notion about...