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...Energetic administrators like Governor Nguyen Huin Tri must be helped, and others told to use what they have before asking for more. A social policy must at least be initiated. Indo-Chinese intellectuals must be taught that self-rule is not merely something presented with a charter and pink ribbon, but a status to be earned and a responsibility to be accepted...
Died. Mme. Mary Astor Paul Allez, 61, onetime Philadelphia society belle whose wartime services (directing espionage, harboring Allied airmen, transmitting messages to U.S. agents), as a member ("Pauline") of the French underground, won her the U.S. Medal of Freedom and a Chevalier's ribbon in France's Legion of Honor; of cancer; in Paris...
...claims to be the biggest U.S. manufacturer of baby foods.* His Gerber Products Co. last year grossed $42 million, netted $3,300,000. Babies are so important to President Gerber that he prints his annual report in pink & blue, with his own picture framed in a blue ribbon bow (see cut). Gerber follows the U.S. birthrate figures as eagerly as a Brooklyn fan scanning Dodger batting averages...
Novelist Erskine (Tobacco Road) Caldwell admitted that he uses up more typewriter ribbon as he grows older, and that he sometimes sits at the typewriter and stares at it for three days without writing a word: "For the past two years I've been doing the same things in the same manner. I'm afraid...
...always a lace-and-ribbon rather than a cap-and-sweater socialist. He adored reason and persuasion above emotion and force. He also loved the elegance of the society he deplored. He liked to recite by rote for hours at a stretch from Pascal, La Bruyere, Saint-Evremond. He knew Anatole France, Zola and Proust. He wrote Latin verse, brilliant dramatic reviews for avant-garde magazines, a study of Stendhal, an imaginary talk with Goethe, a book on marriage (dedicated to his wife) that shocked the bourgeoisie because it favored as much premarital experimental love for women...