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Irving Florman, self-made inventor (cigarette lighters, mine detectors), onetime Broadway play angel and songwriter (Chauve Souris), resigned last week as U.S. ambassador in La Paz. His diplomatic career had lasted 22 lively months. A heavy Democratic campaign contributor, Florman maintained generally good relations with the Bolivian government. But his relations with his own Government in Washington were always testy. After his appointment by President Truman, he spent a full year at La Paz without confirmation by the Senate; the appointment was not actively pushed by the State Department. Recalled for "consultations" with the President last May, he signed...
Brimstone Battle. The find was another feather in the cap of Manhattan Multimillionaire John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 47, capitalist, Yaleman, sportsman (polo and racing), soldier (Air Forces colonel), connoisseur of modern art (TIME, Aug. 27), philanthropist, Broadway angel (Life With Father), public servant (president of New York Hospital), and husband of one of the famed Cushing sisters (Betsy, ex-wife of James Roosevelt). Whitney is Freeport Sulphur's chairman and biggest stockholder. Along with Freeport's President Langbourne M. Williams Jr., 48, he got control of Freeport when both of them were still in their twenties...
...prayerful, God-fearing ways of his youth. While David prays, the movie unaccountably wanders off on a tangent in flashback, interrupting its climax for a blow-by-blow account of how young David slew Goliath, played by hulking (6 ft. 8½ in., 320 lbs.) Wrestler Walter ("The Polish Angel") Talun...
...years Mohammed, with a handful of followers, struggled vainly in Mecca to convince the town leaders that there was no God but Allah. During these years he began to produce the Koran, which he said was not written by him but by God, and transmitted to him by the Angel Gabriel...
Freed on his own $10,000 bail last week was Frederick Vanderbilt Field, millionaire Communist angel, whom Judge Ryan had sentenced to 90 days for contempt of court. Field, a trustee of the Civil Rights Congress bail fund, refused to tell what he knew of the organization's real identity or source of funds. Still in jail on the same charge were two other trustees, one of them Mystery Writer Dashiell (The Thin Man) Hammett...