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...pageant of President Eisenhower's official tour, one American woman had a spotlight all to herself. The only trouble was that Barbara Thompson Eisenhower, 33, is the kind of woman who would much prefer to avoid the spotlight. But as wife of Major John Eisenhower, daughter-in-law of the President, and (in Mamie's absence) a kind of unofficial U.S. First Lady on the trip, Barbara Eisenhower began to relax last week and have a happy time...
Daughter of Army Colonel Percy W. Thompson (now retired), Barbara lived on Army posts, went to high school in Gainesville, Fla., attended Purdue for a while before her father was transferred to Vienna in 1946. There, in the normal round of Army social events, she met Captain John Eisenhower, U.S. Infantry, who was a company commander. They got married less than a year later in Virginia, at a big wedding attended by 200 guests, including Army Chief of Staff Dwight Eisenhower...
...very practical person," says her father, who lives in Gainesville, Fla., "but at the same time, she manages to get enjoyment out of everything she does." In India last week, Barbara was doing just that. She went for a bumpy ride on an elephant with her husband ("Johnny kept rocking the box"), shopped for souvenirs for her children, picked up a few saris for herself ("I love them, but someone will have to show me how to wear them"), visited a village and Red Cross headquarters, chatted with India's leading lady political and social workers at a reception...
...room in two new office buildings costing $90 million, Britain's mother of parliaments has become a legislative slum. "The conditions under which we work," declared one indignant Labor M.P., "are a public scandal." Last week, at the insistence of Labor's fiery, red-haired Boadicea, Barbara Castle, members of the House of Commons were at long last determined to do something about their own welfare...
...author of Tea and Sympathy has written a kind of Elegy in a Country Bedroom, an evening-long unburdening of troubled hearts and sluicing of wistful memories. Much of it is honestly evocative and well expressed. A sensitive Henry Fonda and an appealing Barbara Bel Geddes do well by it. But beyond suffering crucially as a play from all lack of movement, Silent Night suffers equally as a conversation piece from overstretching a mood. That bedeviler of the mood piece, monotony, more and more scatters his poppies. Valid feeling comes more and more to seem watered or sugared...