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...Harris, 54, onetime boy wonder of baseball, now manager of the Washington Senators, whom he steered to their first and only World Series championship in 1924; by Elizabeth Sutherland Harris, fiftyish, daughter of West Virginia's late Senator Howard Sutherland and sister of Lieut. General. Richard K. Sutherland (ret.), MacArthur's World War II chief of staff; after 24 years of marriage, three children; in Titusville...
...Chamber of Commerce meeting in Springfield, Mo. saw a fleeting example of a well-known family temper. Looking at a civil defense pamphlet on the atom bomb, an insurance agent quipped: "They ought to drop one of these on Old Harry." At this, Major General (ret.) Ralph Truman, 70-year-old cousin of the President, aimed a roundhouse right, missed the agent, but knocked off his hat before the two were separated...
They read telegrams from Luther Burbank, General Douglas MacArthur (U.S. Army ret.), ("World Trees never die...") Lippold ("... busy installing plumbing in lounge of Radio City Music Hall...") and Lassie ("Sorry I can't be there to see if stainless steel is really stainless...
...Force General Carl Spaatz (ret.) : "Sometimes I wonder if soldiers or politicians are better able to take care of our affairs...
...campus of Georgia's little (210 full-time students) Piedmont College had been in a turmoil ever since the news leaked out that the college was accepting $500 a month from antiSemitic, anti-Negro Judge George Armstrong's educational association, headed by Major General (ret.) George Van Horn Moseley (TIME, March 12). Last week the uproar boiled over. President James E. Walter, who had already fired one instructor for objecting to the gift, fired Treasurer David B. Eddy, who had never made any secret of his anti-Moseley feeling. Cracked one trustee about all the protests: "The only...