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...taking over the State Department, John Foster Dulles inherited some valuable (and some not valuable) career diplomats. No stranger to the people in the department, he took office with plans already outlined to make full use of the old hands, shifting them to new posts to carry out the new policies. Some prospective shifts reported last week...
...away from their own kitchens went, as always, to the lunch counter in the J. F. Hathaway Market & Grocery across the street. Morose, 58-year-old McFall, an ex-house painter who had lived his whole life in the town of Adrian, only twelve miles away, was considered a stranger...
...sign," reported Conservative M. P. Beverley Baxter in Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard, "when American taxi drivers do not engage a stranger in conversation. This time the canaries did not sing . . . When I asked a friend for an explanation, he answered that America is haunted by two spectres-war and peace . . . Incidentally, a New Yorker who has lived on the fringe of world affairs . . . suggested to me that Japan might be invited to take over Korea . . . 'Japanese armament shares have had a sharp rise,' he said suavely. I make no comment on his statement, but merely...
Marnes-la-Coquette. During World War II, she just sat tight, played mah-jongg, and kept out of the newspapers. As wife of the president of Columbia University, she did the sensible thing, and acted since she was a stranger to the academic world - as if she were on some unfamiliar Army post. But at Marnes-la-Coquette, the 14-room French mansion which the Eisen howers occupied when Ike commanded SHAPE, Mamie served a unique appren ticeship for life in the White House...
...Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). Shelley Winters in Phone Call from a Stranger...