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...another in describing MacArthur. He was "America's greatest soldier-statesman," and "like some sequoia, calm and proudly decked." Herald Columnist Bill Cunningham wrote that the general and his wife were "fresh as flowers in a florist's refrigerator" and noted, "If every wife were as pretty, as trim and as charming as Mrs. MacArthur, despite Corregidor, Australia, Japan, etc., they wouldn't have to resort to dreaming...
Like fretful relatives, the British like to be kept posted on the health and welfare of their royal family with frequent news items and photos. A shot of the King looking trim and healthy on the front page of the morning papers is as bracing as a tonic. This week London newspapers printed a picture which showed King George looking haggard and ill as he returned from a vacation in Scotland to consult a London physician. It filled his subjects with alarm rather than reassurance. The country has worried about the King's health ever since he came down...
...defense orders are still not going out fast enough to make up for the new civilian cutbacks. General Motors' President Charles E. Wilson, who runs the world's biggest corporation, warned last week that he has already had to trim his work force by 30,000, and will have to cut still more unless bigger defense orders are forthcoming. Faced with a 20% cut in civilian production, G.M.'s defense production so far accounts for about 10% of its 1950 dollar-volume...
...Early Days. The men he owes his life to are the medics and surgeons of the Army's ist Provisional Neurosurgical Detachment and its trim, brown-haired commander, Lieut. Colonel Arnold M. Meirowsky. In the early days in Korea, it often took a week or more be fore a man with a delicate head wound could be gotten to a neurosurgeon back in Tokyo. The chances of infection are great in head and spinal wounds; too many of the first cases died or suffered crippling paralysis. Nowadays, thanks to forward-area teams, wounded men are being treated...
...Jacques Fath offered maternity-like tent coats ("the green cone"); Balenciaga suits had elbow cuffs like parachutes. One Schiaparelli model looked like an oldtime Bloomer Girl (see cut) in an evening gown consisting of a short halter and harem-type underskirt. By comparison, conservative Hattie Carnegie's trim, attractive "spider web" evening gown looked just the thing most U.S. males would like to see their wives...