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Married. Jean Dalrymple, 41, Broadway pressagent turned producer (Sartre's Red Gloves); and Colonel Philip DeWitt Ginder, 46, commander of the U.S. 6th Regiment in Berlin, whom she met at a cocktail party on a visit there two months ago; both for the second time (her first husband was Ward Morehouse, Manhattan drama columnist); in Danbury, Conn. Matron of honor: Neighbor Gladys Swarthout...
When Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Stagg was in Leh, the ancient capital of Tibet. He quickly went to London to join his regiment, the "Devil's Own" (Inns of Court) Squadron, which was recruited chiefly among lawyers, but he was too old for active service. The Foreign Office sent him instead to Havana as Honorary Attache, under Sir George Ogilvie-Forbes. He was in Cuba for a year and spent the rest of the war in Bogata, assigned to "confidential operations...
...Leader of the House of Commons, a taxing triple assignment. A great -great-grandson of the last British Governor of Maryland, Eden has a proper Tory background -county aristocracy, Eton. Oxford (high honors in Oriental languages), a good army regiment, Whitehall and May fair. Respected for his integrity and his success as Britain's Foreign Secretary during the war, liked because he never gets personal or partisan, he has raised high hopes but has not yet fulfilled them. His critics consider him uninspiringly conventional...
...Cavalry Regiment was hacking its way up another of the unnamed, unnumbered hills of Korea. Back at the ist Cavalry Division's headquarters, Captain Richard K. Cole, 28, of Orlando, Fla., was waiting. A corpsman stuck his head through the tent flap and called out: "Patients for you, doc." Psychiatrist Cole picked up his only instruments, a notebook and pencil, and sat down on a packing case. The corpsman led the first patient in, handing his medical record to Cole...
...forced to concede it sooner. Egypt's peremptory claim of control of the Sudan is opposed by all but one political party in the Sudan. And the resident British Governor General, square-faced Sir Robert Howe, is in control. The ist Battalion of the South Lancashire Infantry Regiment, stationed at Trieste, embarked for Khartoum, the Sudan capital...