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Then last week the A.P. sent out the captioned picture below showing Miss Paik of Pyongyang, sergeant in the Communist "Reception Personnel", with a copy of TIME'S July 23 issue opened to the story about her. "Pert in an olive jacket and blue skirt" (as the story described her), she had said that she wanted a unified Korea, then discreetly smiled off a question about who should run it. Perhaps this story about her is not the only reason for her intent look. On that same page a picture box reported thousands of South Koreans demonstrating against...
...they saw were two M.P.s directing traffic with burp guns slung from their shoulders. (Admiral Joy had agreed to a "necessary minimum" of armed Communist soldiers.) Outside the conference building (newly designated by the Communists as "United Nations House") they found two North Korean officers and a woman sergeant, pert in an olive jacket and blue skirt, who turned out to be a Miss Paik of Pyongyang. The three told the U.N. convoy commander they were there to provide any services they could...
...Pert, brunette Evelyn Caldwell, 42, who writes the "Penny Wise" shopping column for the Vancouver Sun (circ. 161,603), got a chance two months ago at a free air trip to Australia. When she asked Sun Publisher Don Cromie's permission to go, Cromie meditatively twirled the globe on his desk. "You know," he said, "Korea is only about four inches from Australia. You'd better drop in there and see how our boys are making...
...Thames having a little more bounce than usual, it still makes the British capital a road company of Paris, so far as esprit is concerned . . . The Rue Blondel maisons de tolerance have long since been outlawed, [but] the prosties [on the streets] are as surprising in their pert good looks and simple good taste in clothes as in the plenitude of numbers...
...Boston this week, one of the few world religions to spring from the U.S. held its annual meeting. The 7,500 Christian Scientists who assembled at the Mother Church on Falmouth Street elected a new president for the one-year term: pert, sixtyish Lora C. Rathvon, widow of' William R. Rathvon, who was corresponding secretary to Founder Mary Baker Eddy herself...