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...slippers on dry ground. Nothing was too good for Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef, the pro-Nationalist monarch who, a prisoner of the French in Madagascar exile seven months ago, now returned in triumph to open negotiations for Moroccan independence. Welcomed at the airport by Premier Guy Mollet and a platoon of ministers, the Sultan was borne off with his wives to a tapestried villa, and launched on a round of banquets and Parisian splendors...
...week's end the hearings has almost petered out. The platoon of G.M. brass gathered up their papers and went home, leaving assistants to clean up odds and ends of testimony over the next few weeks. What had O'Mahoney accomplished? The hearings showed that G.M. executives did their homework before they took the stand, that they freely cooperated with the committee, and that they ran a highly efficient business. While some of G.M.'s 17,000 dealers were clearly sore, the records proved that even they had done very well. Quipped one newsman...
...savings if she will just wrap up the dough in a clean handkerchief. The show is filmed in Manhattan, where Brooklyn-born Phil Silvers is happiest, and he has his weekends free to go to prizefights, hockey games, and, in season, root for the Dodgers. His left-footed TV platoon is loaded with ex-ringmen (Middleweight Walter Carder, Light-weight Maxie Shapiro, Fight Manager Jack Healy), and Silvers hopes he is settled for a long TV run: "I had adoration before, but it was never anything like this. It was a limited-type adoration. Now they adore...
...even more picturable subject: his three frisky grandchildren, bundled joyfully in snowsuits and mittens, prepared to steal the scene as effectively as he hoped they would. With Ike and their father, Major John Eisenhower, the children played in front of the canary-yellow barn, watched by a full platoon of sharp-eyed cameramen and reporters. Lounging patiently at the barn door was Tony, a black-and-white Shetland pony, hitched up to a two-wheeled, wicker-basket cart...
Between those two dates occurred one of the most buoyant lives in the history of English letters. When others sulked about the shape of things to come, he chortled, bounced, sniggered and bugled. The family into which he was born was a platoon of all the talents. His kin include Burne-Jones (uncle), the pre-Raphaelite painter, Angela Thirkell (second cousin), the sad librettist of middle-class soap operas, a president of the Royal Academy and a dull cousin named Stan Baldwin who became Prime Minister...