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...Arthur, Texas. A scrawny youngster, she rebelled against femininity; women were "sissies who wore girdles, bras and that junk." Instead of wasting time with dolls, Mildred Ella Didrikson exercised on a backyard weight-lifting machine built of broomsticks and her mother's flatirons. She beat boys at mumblety-peg, whizzed past them in foot races and razzle-dazzled them in basketball. Still in her teens, she burst into the headlines as the hit of the 1932 Olympic Games, winning the javelin throw and the 80-meter hurdles. She disdained lipstick, plastered her hair back, talked out of the side...
...chairman of Citizens for Eisenhower. Williams succeeded Paul Hoffman as head of the Committee for Economic Development and served as chairman of Washington's state Republican committee. Last month, after chatting with Ike about a possible Cabinet job, Williams confessed that he thought of himself as a square peg in a round hole in Treasury, but a "round peg in a round hole" in Commerce...
...Round Peg. Ike kept his business routine to a minimum. For two hours each morning, he went over the mail and dictated answers to his secretary, Mrs. Ann Whitman. After that, his two aides, Appointments Secretary Thomas Stephens and Press Secretary Jim Hagerty, briefed him on the morning news and the day's dilemmas. Confronted by a problem, Ike would think it over for a moment, his forefinger and thumb playing with the cap on his front tooth. Then he would spring from his chair, pace the floor and announce his decision in a quick sentence...
Naguib's intention was to purge the army and the government of corruption and take Farouk down a peg. But the more extreme members of the officers' committee urged him to get rid of the King altogether. They were backed up by the Moslem Brotherhood, a fanatic, powerful secret society, 500,000 strong...
...picture (left) in the August 14 issue of LOOK (What's on America's Mind). Imagine our surprise to reappear as part of LOOK Recalls the Turbulent Era (March 20). The picture, as I remember it, was taken in the Greyhound bus station in Washington. D. C. Peg and I were on our honeymoon. I guess we looked a little glum because I was scheduled to leave in a few days for Korea...