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...purpose of Acheson's trip is to assure Latin American countries that the U.S. has not forgotten them. Latinos vividly remember the days of Roosevelt, Cordell Hull and Sumner Welles, when contacts between the U.S. and its sister republics were closely maintained at the top level. On the strength of such relations, the U.S. drew heavily on Latin America in World War II for essential raw materials, afterwards worked with the Latino delegates in founding the U.N. and in establishing, at Rio in 1947, a regional security system that became the model for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
Heading the list are Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, Dean David, and Associate Dean Teele. They will debate Slichter's theory that the American standard of living has doubled every forty years for the past century...
...Anderson of the daily Wisconsin State Journal (circ. 75,653), read about the mishap to the Observer's one-man (and wife) staff. He rounded up three of his reporters, an advertising man and linotypist, drove ten miles to Oregon and put together an eight-page issue. Will Sumner Jr., editor of another weekly, the Evansville Review, was recruited to feed the 75-year-old flatbed press. The Observer came out last week-only one day late. Said Kramer: "This beats anything I've seen in 63 years in the newspaper business...
...Married. Sumner Welles, 59, elegant onetime Under Secretary of State (1937-43), a chief architect of the Good Neighbor policy, author on foreign relations (The Time for Decision, Seven Decisions That Shaped History); and Mrs. Harriette A. Post, 57, Manhattan socialite; both for the third time; in Manhattan...
...Sumner Pike, who helped to set up the system and who recently resigned as a commissioner, says that to him the commission's job is "somehow revolting." It is, he says, "one of those things that a dictator says is all right in his own hands, but which could do a lot of harm in the hands of any other...