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Complete Man. By the time Anthony Biddle died (in 1948 at 73), he had seen his son and ring protégé Tony become an ambassador and a colonel. His grandson, Cordelia's boy "Angie" Biddle Duke, later served as Truman's envoy to El Salvador, the youngest ambassador in U.S. history (36 when he was appointed). Though Biddies still proliferate in Philadelphia's social register, Cordelia has switched from the Main Line to Manhattan. The result is that My Philadelphia Father, "as told to" Kyle Crichton,* reads like ripsnorting, Bull Moosish commotion recollected...
...looted Manchuria of $2 billion worth of Japanese industrial equipment on which Chiang had counted for China's economic uplift. Then, in late 1949, two days after Mao Tse-tung proclaimed the Chinese Communist state, Stalin withdrew formal recognition from Chiang and gave it to his longtime Chinese prot...
...record now shows that at the time of the Spiridonovka party, another of his protégés, Armenian party Secretary Grigori A. Arutinov, political boss of Armenia since 1937, was being ousted. Some time later Mikoyan's trusted deputy in the Ministry of Foreign Trade, English-speaking Alexei D. Krutikov, was also expelled for "placing personal friendships above party and state interests," and the ministry was criticized for having covered up for Krutikov...
...Tongues. There were no grounds during the war for supposing that Alice's relations with her 14-year-old protégé were more than those of a dedicated teacher and a pupil in whom she recognized the spark of genius. But smalltown tongues wag easily, and Saint-Maur's gossips, titillated by frequent glimpses of Alice and Raymond strolling in deep communion by the river's edge, let their speculation run free. When Alice's poilu husband Gaston came back from the war a hero, the cheers that greeted him were mingled with many...
Nevada: Alan Bible, 44, onetime Senate elevator operator and state attorney general, defeated Senator Ernest Brown, who was appointed last month to fill the late Pat McCarran's seat. Bible, McCarran's protégé and law partner, has promised to carry on the McCarran tradition by plugging for higher wool, lead and zinc tariffs...