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...Bataan's next stop was San Francisco-and Douglas MacArthur's first view of the U.S. mainland in nearly 14 years. It was the strangest soldier's homecoming in history. He was a General of the Army, stripped of his commands and without assignment, yet the U.S. was waiting to sweep him up in tumultuous greeting all the way to Manhattan's ticker-taped Broadway. His words had brought public dismissal and rebuke from his Commander in Chief, yet the Congress of the U.S. honored him by arranging a special joint meeting this week to hear...
Mark Tobey,* one of the Northwest's strangest and most famed painters, last week got the top recognition of his 60 years: San Francisco staged a big retrospective show in his honor. The pictures on exhibit dated back to 1917, when Tobey was painting reasonably realistic and somewhat prosaic still lifes and portraits. Since then, he has taken to reducing scenes and figures to luminous scribbles and to producing out & out abstractions-loose, slippery tangles of white lines that look as if they might have been inspired by a dish of spaghetti...
...subtle change began to come over Belgrade's editorial rooms: Yugoslav newsmen swung like weathervanes from their Soviet-style polemics, began spinning reasonably honest stories for their startled readers. Recently U.N. and North Korean war communiques have run side by side in the capital's Communist papers. Strangest of all, criticism of Communist officials appeared in public print...
Perhaps the strangest sight Columbus saw was off the coast of Hispaniola on his way back to Spain. Looming out of the Caribbean Sea were three manatees-sea cows. These warm-blooded mammals looked half human as they raised their heads and chests and clasped their young in their arms to suckle them. Columbus found them disappointing mermaids. He confided in his log: "They are . . . not so beautiful as they are painted...
MacArthur had intended to fly into Fukuoka and there board his ship. The sudden change of plans because of a typhoon gave the general his first long ride overland in Japan since his arrival more than five years ago. One of the strangest facts about this great and strange man is that he has seen almost nothing of the country under his rule. His travels have been largely limited to occasional drives between Tokyo and the Haneda airbase eight miles away...