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Private Life: Quiet, inclined to be aloof, a teetotaler and a man of plain tastes who shuns all but the quietest social engagements. Likes hunting and fishing, married 35 years to former Helen Hazel Moore. They have three grown children all service folk: two daughters who are married to Army lieutenant colonels and a West Pointer son, James Jr., who is an Air Force lieutenant...
Last week nine million West Germans in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia -which includes the Ruhr-went to the polls to elect a new state legislature. It was the second free election in Germany since the Nazis, and the quietest yet. By evening the voters, mostly miners and steelworkers, representing one-fourth of all voters in West Germany, had smashingly rejected both Communists and extreme right-wing Nationalist parties...
...spends his mornings in the studio, his armchair drawn up to the easel, painting from the model or still life. The window looks out on to the uncared-for garden, and provides the quietest view in the room. Everywhere else one looks is blazing with color: bright silk cushions, bric-a-brac, copper vases, flowers, fruits, costume jewelry, feathers, and yards of vivid material looped over chairs or hanging ready for his models. In one corner stands a huge aviary which used to be flashing with Milanese pigeons (most of them died during the war). An old-fashioned country telephone...
...think?" asked Visson. Lord Halifax bent down with a tired smile. "I don't think this is the end of the world," he said. This quotation ended TIME'S story, which may not have been the best one from San Francisco that week, but was surely the quietest...
...streets of Mexico, Christmas is the quietest day of the year. For children it is just another day of waiting for the toys that by Mexican custom will come a fortnight later, on Jan. 6, the Day of the Three Kings...