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Died. Lord Woolton, 81, Churchill's food minister from 1940 to 1943, known to his friends as "the greatest quartermaster since Moses" and to the rest of Britain as the man who introduced ration points and the meatless "Woolton Pie" (potatoes, vegetables, oatmeal and gravy), who became Tory Party chairman in 1946 and helped engineer the party's return to power by easing out oldtimers and rebuilding the treasury; of a heart attack; in Sussex, England...
Some of the stringers are unexpected types-for example, Dolly Connelly of Bellingham, Wash., a housewife who bakes very good oatmeal-walnut yeast bread, and who is also a freelance journalist who covers her area of the Northwest U.S. with a bright and knowing touch. Most of the part-time correspondents, however, are full-time professional journalists who hold positions of importance in the areas they cover...
...Handful of Oatmeal." First on Rusk's agenda was a private session with Spanish Foreign Minister Fernando Ma ria Castiella y Maiz. It was also the most urgent meeting of the day, since the Spaniards had threatened not to re new a ten-year agreement, expiring this year, which permits U.S. bases in Spain...
With Indonesia's Dr. Subandrio, Rusk discussed the Malaysian crisis, but got little in the way of enlightenment from the elusive foreign minister. "It's like trying to grab a handful of oatmeal," said one aide...
...look at me, you'd never guess I used to be a dull guy," he says. "My idea of a wild time was Kool-Aid and oatmeal cookies. At parties, I stayed in the room with the coats." Dipping toward the sick, he tells about a friend, the author of What to Do in Case of Peace, who prophesied that on May 1, 1951, the world would come to an end. "For him it did," Vernon remembers. "He was eating in the Automat and the little glass door snapped down and broke his neck. That night in the hospital...