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...Selden Chapin, 55, to be Ambassador to Iran. Careerman Chapin, a wealthy, dewlapped sportsman (golf, sailing) and an Annapolis graduate, has knocked around the world for 30 years in the Foreign Service. In 1949, as U.S. Minister to Communist Hungary, he was accused of conspiring with Cardinal Mindszenty, declared non grata and thrown out of the country (Chapin dismissed the charges as "pure fantasy...
...scene-showing the ceremonial feeding of a sacrificial cock-composed with brilliant simplicity. Only 22, and hungry for further knowledge of art, Bigaud leads the field in Haiti. He borrowed his not-at-all-primitive stipple technique ready-made from a book of Van Gogh reproductions that U.S. Critic Selden Rodman gave him last summer...
...staff saw immediately that physiology was but one approach and that there was a great need for a clearing house of scientific information on the subject. As Selden D. Bacon, Director of the Center and a Yale professor of Sociology, states, "Alcohol cuts across almost every field of human knowledge. Sociology, literature, chemistry, economics, anthropology--to mention only a few--are all concerned at one time or another with the use and effects of alcohol...
...week, as they do each month, members of the society met to read learned papers, look at each other's new acquisitions, and maybe swap a few soldiers. Since 1931, the society's total membership (resident and nonresident) has grown to more than 400. Among the nonresidents; Selden Chapin. U.S. Ambassador to The Netherlands. Recently the society admitted ten Germans for the first time since the war. Conceded a French member: "They know a lot about uniforms and soldiers...
Siberia & Bunker Hill. The Marines had no chance to get rusty, as General Selden had feared they might. The Chinese Reds began a "creeping war" against their positions. Fortnight ago a beefed-up Chinese platoon attacked a small Marine force on "Siberia," an insignificant hill about four miles east of Panmunjom. In 26 hours Siberia changed hands nine times. When the enemy took it for the fifth time and showed signs of holding on, the U.S. position looked untenable. For two days, Marine artillery and planes raked Siberia. Then, early last week, the Marines occupied "Bunker Hill," which is higher...