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...Operation Swarmer the Air Force has assembled virtually all the troop-carrier and cargo planes that would be available if the U.S. were attacked this week. Nevertheless, the Air Force's able, 43-year-old Lieut. General Lauris ("Larry") Norstad, in command, has had to tailor his plans to his restricted fleet of aircraft, dropping one regiment at a time on the North Carolina countryside...
Hustling, bustling Indo-Chinese Nguyen Van Tan had little time for the political debate so popular with his countrymen in Paris. He was too busy with the practical side of politics. A onetime tailor and tourist guide in Saigon, Nguyen after World War II made himself invaluable to the French with his talent for purchasing hard-to-get rice for their forces fighting Indo-China's Communist Boss Ho Chi Minh. It was said in Saigon that Nguyen could buy rice in the very heart of a Ho-held village and ship it out to the French...
...Love Me Tonight" has a slight edge on its companion piece in entertainment value as well as in the amount of impressive talent it displays. This story of a tailor who successfully woos a princess has the light directorial touch of Rouben Mamoulian and some superb Rodgers and Hart songs, including "Isn't it Romantic," "Mimi," and the immortal "Lover." C. Aubrey Smith and Myrna Loy are featured players, along with Charlie Ruggles as a flat broke viscount and Charlie Butterworth, that incomparable old-school comedian, as Chevalier's and eyed rival for Miss MacDonald's hand. "One Hour With...
London's Savile Row tailors, zealous guardians of conservatism in men's fashions, were anything but happy. King George VI got two new tartan dinner jackets, was wearing them at informal parties. "His Majesty," the editor of Tailor & Cutter wrote, swallowing hard, "will bring dignity to the garment...
...Colorado-born Harold Ross was an ex-itinerant newspaperman and ex-editor of the A.E.F.'s Stars and Stripes, a rumpled, rawboned man with electric hair. (Dorothy Parker cracked that her life ambition was to walk barefoot through it.) At 57, Ross can afford a good tailor ("I'm a well-dressed man!" he indignantly insists) and curbs his hair, but he has somehow managed to retain the air of permanent dishevelment. Once ex-New Yorker Writer Margaret Case Harriman called Ross "that lovable old volcano," and the late Alexander Woollcott described him as "Dodsworth, with an overlay...