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...Manhattan, where he is still technically on active duty and maintains an office, Old Soldier Douglas MacArthur acknowledged orders from Secretary of the Army Frank Pace Jr. to trim his staff of eight aides down to three, the usual number for a five-star general not on specific duty...
...shortest final deliberations in Westminster records, Judge Sims gave the Doberman the nod. Storm promptly jumped up & down and pawed and licked his handler-just as if he knew he had won. Owner Len Carey bought him as a puppy, sight unseen, and has kept him in show trim by exercising him in Manhattan's Central Park. Carey, an advertising executive, was not surprised at his dog's triumph: "He's strictly a ham. He knows what a flashbulb...
Home Haircut. The International Latex Corp. (Playtex girdles) put on the market the "greatest invention since the safety razor," the Playtex Hair Cutter. The instrument can be used to cut, trim and taper hair at home. Price...
...Leverett "B" quintet, which has lost six straight games, may gets its promising material organized soon. Junior Dave Heller, who helped Floyd Wilson trim down the size of the freshman squad, is going to coach the "B" Bunnies...
...appointment, though it got Canada its first native-born Governor General (see HEMISPHERE), cost Canada the most popular Governor General (the 37th) it had ever had. A trim soldier with a cool head, imperturbable nerves and mild manner, Alexander fought around the globe in the last war. He was "last man off the beach" at Dunkirk, went into Burma, the Middle East, North Africa and Italy, became Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean. He did his work well and modestly and did not rush his memoirs into print afterwards. "If he had," a fellow general once said, "the personal pronoun...