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Western Europeans last week got a reassuring glimpse of America, embodied by three of its topflight fighting men. For ten days, homely, lean-flanked Army Chief of Staff General Omar Bradley, boyish-looking Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg (he is 50), and earnest, bespectacled Admiral Louis Denfeld, Chief of Naval Operations, toured the Continent in Harry Truman's blue and silver plane, Independence, reviewed troops, placed wreaths, and did some top-secret chatting with leaders of the Atlantic pact nations. The visitors' chief task was to show Western Europe that they took an interest...
Last week, after nine years of military service, Howley (now a brigadier general) resigned to go home to his advertising business. To succeed Reservist Howley as commander in Berlin, U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy got a topflight U.S. professional-Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, wartime commander of the famed 101st Airborne Division, later Superintendent of West Point, more recently Chief of Staff of U.S. forces in Europe. Taylor's most spectacular wartime exploit came in 1943 when-he slipped through the German lines wearing his U.S. uniform, and under the Nazis' noses made his way to Rome...
...students and most of his faculty sided with Siqueiros. When Campanella announced that he had banned the Maestro from the premises, they offered their resignations. In Mexico City, Siqueiros roared that Campanella was a "gangster" whose "frauds . . . are now a criminal matter." Diego Rivera and 40-odd other topflight Mexican painters got off a fire-breathing manifesto charging Campanella with breach of contract, and declared a boycott against the school...
Said Camp Director James Christian Pfohl: "[Up to now] imported music has peeled off Southern hides like bark off a slippery elm . . . We do not have a topflight professional music school in the South. We hope the students we train will lift the South's musical life...
...Robert R. Newell, director of Stanford's radio-biological laboratory, polled 32 of the nation's topflight radiologists and physicists on the question : How much radiation would it take to kill a man? Last week Dr. Newell reported his findings. The radiologists gave such widely varied answers that the important question was left hanging...