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...year-old Cleveland writer on foreign affairs (Mainsprings of World Politics), and president of the Cleveland Council on World Affairs, was made president of the Foreign Policy Association, top-ranking citizens' group for the study of international problems. His predecessor: 72-year-old Major General Frank R. McCoy (ret...
Columbia's blossoms blanketed all the brass in sight. Honorarily LL.D.'d, besides Marshall and Halsey: General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Admiral Ernest J. King, General Alexander A. Vandegrift, Vice Admiral Emory S. Land (ret.), Major General Lewis B. Hershey, Major General Norman T. Kirk and (in absentia) General Henry H. Arnold and General Douglas MacArthur...
Colonel Melvin Hall, U.S.A.A.F (ret.), has led the life that small boys and commuters dream of. His father, a successful Vermont businessman, was a passionate canoeist, boxer, bicyclist, motorist and traveler, and he shared those hobbies with his son just as soon as Melvin was out of diapers. At twelve, young Hall made his first tour of Europe (in a Pan-hard); at 17, he was ridden clear around the world; at 18 he attended George V's Coronation Durbar (1911) in India, watched the imperial sweat drip from the ermine band of the royal crown, while rajahs...
...vitals of the Third Republic none was more conspicuously malignant than the "affaire Stavisky." It took its name from Mystery-Millionaire Alexander Stavisky, who one day in 1934 was found shot to death in a snowbound Alpine hideout (TIME, Jan. 15, 1934 et seq.). Sûretée agents had trailed him there to ask him about the failure of the municipal pawnshop at Bayonne, in which Stavisky held the controlling interest...
...plot, Author Jennings shoots him or gives him a fatal tumble from the to'gallants. Wandering around in the background-as though to remind the reader that life in those days was more than just tosspots and sea-chanteys-are Sammy Adams, Tommy Jefferson and old General Washington (ret...