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Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick is no man to let others transact his important business. When Publisher McCormick decided to go to Tokyo, politicos guessed that General Douglas MacArthur was to be measured for a presidential toga. The Colonel kept in close touch with his Chicago Tribune readers, as usual...
...outfit, a jacket with pencil-slim skirt by M-G-M Designer Irene, was so tight that the hobbled model could not walk down the stairs in it. A complicated "Toga for Travel," by Bonnie Cashin, consisted of a black dress under an enormous brown knee-length cape, set off by a matching sun helmet and candy-striped spats. Another cold weather number was a white fleece overcoat, by Elois Jenssen, electrically heated by batteries carried in two side pockets (with an extension cord that could be plugged in on planes or trains...
This week Ohio's metropolis buzzed happily with plans for making its Founders' Day a memorable sesquicentennial event. Up the twisting, industry-fouled, rat-grey Cuyahoga (rhymes with buy a toga) River, now edged with iron and steel furnaces, oil refineries, factories, warehouses, docks and long ore, coal and grain ships, a small boat will bring Leading Citizens to re-enact the landing (complete to an Indian greeter). There will be the inevitable Civic Luncheon (Clevelanders love anything with the word Civic in front of it). That night in the spacious downtown Mall there will be carnival: floats...
...cold, well-dressed and superior. He seemed rather glad to be out of the dock where one had to sit with such dreadful people. He said that his fellow defendant Goring, for instance, was an ignorant and "immoral criminal type" who liked to play Nero at parties (complete with toga and rouged lips). At that, Göring rose furiously, had to be restrained by Admirals Raeder and Doenitz...
...Togas & Trios. If the other logs were smaller, they were still of awkward sizes. Iran (see FOREIGN NEWS) posed a question the League never solved: what action will UNO take if a small power accuses a great power of aggression? Korea, still split between U.S. and Russian occupation zones, symbolized a whole set of answers needed on dependent areas and trusteeship. The Moscow press showed that Molotov was mincing no words on the Far East-Pravda challenged the presence of U.S. troops in China, and Izvestia complained that the U.S. tolerated "Japanese militarists in the toga of democrats...