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...London, Margaret Truman was getting the VIP tour. Highlights: a 90-minute tour of Scotland Yard, lunch with Prime Minister Winston Churchill, tea at Buckingham Palace along with some 7,000 other guests at the first garden party given by Queen Elizabeth II, dinner at the home of Douglas Fairbanks Jr., where guests enjoyed "a very subdued singsong or community hum." The trip, said Mar garet, has a two-fold purpose: to give her voice a rest and to escape from politics. Said she: "I've been to the last four conventions; I've served my time...
...VIP Operation. Nutty as a fruit cake to all but his ardent fans is Virgil Franklin Partch II (pen name: VIP). Even when seen, a Partch cartoon can hardly be believed. "Guess Who," reads the caption under a domestic scene in which the not-so-little woman has sneaked up on her man from behind and blindfolded him with her bosom. Now 35, Partch has already drawn a man with as many as 19 fingers; he stamps out ugly, proboscidian heads as though he had gone berserk with a giant cookie-cutter. His special bugaboo: meeting his public. "They expect...
...titles of MacArthur was as sudden and startling as his appointment to the Eighth Army's command 3½ months ago on the death of Lieut. General Walton Walker. "Oh my gosh," he stammered as he read the orders from Washington. Next day, Ridgway and his VIP visitor, Army Secretary Frank Pace, flew to Tokyo...
...lack of official competition, the four hopes to enter the race open to quads. The Crimson entry for this race. Joe Eldridge, Heller, Gordy Abbott, and Allen, will be the fours only substantial worry if this shift is allowed by ARA officials. So far the ARA VIP's have not vetoed the plan. This quad has had little practice together but all are well versed in the plying of double oars...
...VIP Service will tackle almost anything. Once, it arranged a wedding on two days' notice. When nobody showed up to give the bride away, Bill Murphy did it. Last week the Murphys were 1) bringing a VIP's wife and seven children from Iran, 2) hunting a consulate in Manhattan for the Philippines, 3) trying to buy 10,000,000 feet of iron pipe and 50,000 tons of sheet steel for a European VIP...