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...three-hour conference and a roast-beef lunch with his old chief, General Douglas MacArthur. MacArthur, 74, who looked older and leaner, said: "The President and myself are old friends and have been associated together for many years. He asked me down not only to resume the old friendship but to discuss . . . the general strategic and military situation in various areas of the world, the Far East situation and things of that nature. He wished to get my point of view. I had a delightful luncheon and a pleasant talk." ¶ Approved the $930,343,000 development project...
...Gussie's folding money, the Cards have picked up the Yankees' aging (34) Vic Raschi to beef up a pitching staff weakened by the loss (to the Army), of Wilmer ("Vinegar Bend") Mizell. They have a 25-year-old, $100,000 shortstop named Alex Grammas, out of Kansas City in Class AAA, who should give Regular Solly Hemus a run for his position. For another $100,000 they have hard-hitting Tom Alston, a first baseman and the first Negro on the Cardinal roster. And they have an impressive list of seasoned money players: Outfielder Enos Slaughter, Second...
...Seth Baker, 26, Manhattan stockbroker; she for the first time, he for the second; in an evening ceremony, followed by a mammoth, $50,000 reception where some 600 guests (including Ethel Merman, Tyrone Power, Bob Hope) consumed 420 bottles of champagne, 700 Ibs. of squab, 600 Ibs. of beef tenderloin; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...been paralleled by big gains in the relatively new pursuit (for Florida) of raising cattle. Until a few years ago, gunfights crackled over the Florida countryside in the best tradition of the West. But now 1,500,000 acres of good cattle land and 1,386.000 head of beef cattle are fenced in under the watchful eyes of Seminole Indian cowhands, and order reigns. Said 77-year-old Agriculture Commissioner Nathan Mayo: "We used to have nothing but scrawny herds of 4-H cattle−hide, hair, hoof and horns. Now there are more than 925 registered herds...
...ROTC committee, said last night that the mechanical aspects of Army training would be taught in the summer, leaving the College year free for more liberal arts study in ROTC courses. This would also eliminate one year of ROTC instruction in the College. "We're trying to beef up the program a little more and still not sacrifice the kind of training which future officers must have," Sapp said...