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This week, Lucky Billo engaged in his last big diplomatic chore, lent his official presence to the inauguration of Mexico's new President (see HEMISPHERE). Then, as he went off to relax on the sands at Acapulco, many a New Yorker guessed that he would settle down south of the border for good, to bask in the southern sun and enjoy the admiration of the understanding Latins, and perhaps reflect cozily, like a retired Houdini recalling the box trick, on his old adventures in practical politics...
...story concerns Richard Sherman, a married New Yorker whose wife is away for the summer. Married for seven years and on earth for almost 40, he has reached that half-wolfish, half-mousy point when the eye begins to wander but the ego to worry, when Caspar Milquetoast sounds an alarm clock on Walter Mitty's dreams. There is an attractive young lady (Vanessa Brown) who lives in the apartment above Richard, and with whom he gets very pleasantly enmeshed. But there is a gaudy imagination and a lurid conscience that live within him, through which he gets enmeshed...
...Chaffee Room contains the ballet collection of New Yorker George Chaffee "the finest in America" according to William B. Van Lennep '29, curator of the Theatre Collection. The collection spans the history of ballet from its origin in 1581 up to the present. Among the items included are books, prints, drawings, figurines, and a pair of ballet shoes belonging to ballerina Alicia Markova, one of the foremost of our time...
Feller, a 47-year-old native New Yorker, was one of U.N.'s pioneers and one of its highest and most valuable officers. A lawyer who spent 15 years in teaching and in New Deal Government service, he joined the U.N. staff when it was being formed in London in 1946 as legal counsel and policy adviser to Secretary General Trygve Lie. A few weeks before his suicide, he had been made acting Assistant Secretary General...
...Yorker cartoon of some months ago pictured a perpendicular mountain peak, with two puffing, heavily loaded climbers just reaching the top. Standing at the summit was a third gentleman, dressed in business suit and Alpine hat. He was shouting excitedly into a walkie-talkie...