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...slivovitz to Winston Churchill. He has exchanged toasts with the Queen of Greece, been feted at the Dolmabaghche palace in Ankara, which he had last visited as an agent of international Communism traveling with a forged passport. He has traveled to India to see Nehru, to Burma to confer with U Nu; he has talked with Egypt's Nasser aboard a yacht...
...Tito, the worried outcast of yesterday was now feeling his oats. So far, his "active coexistence" was doing well: just look at what important guests he had lured to his small country-the Premier and the party boss of Russia. And this week, Burma's U Nu is coming; after him, India's Nehru. What more could a peasant...
...home stretch of her Far Eastern tour in behalf of overseas blind, Helen Keller, an indomitable 74, arrived in Burma, was promptly introduced to Premier U Nu. She explored his face with her sensitive hands, pronounced him "a philosopher and a poet." Later, meeting reporters in Rangoon, Helen Keller was asked by Roving Journalist Vincent (Rage of the Soul) Sheean how she felt about one of Playwright George Bernard Shaw's loftier dicta, which, as Sheean recalled, went: "Of all Americans, Miss Keller is the least blind and deaf." Miss Keller replied: "That is not what he actually said...
...does." Some of Republican Hopkins' support ers enthusiastically rushed off in the wrong direction, however, creating a rus tic caricature of a campaign around his homespun look. Ten teams of G.O.P. cam paign workers lined up along street curbs to display rhymed signs advertising Sam Hopkins, like Burma-Shave. An octette of Republican ladies, wearing coonskin caps, trooped around town chanting a six-stanza ode to Sam Hopkins, written to the tune of Davy Crockett. Sample stanza...
Clad in grey mufti and the warm glow that radiates from a consummation long and devoutly wished, Admiral the Earl Mountbatten of Burma ("Dickie" to his friends) appeared at the Admiralty in London and took office as Britain's First Sea Lord. The last First Sea Lord to steer H.M.'s Navy from the green-walled room Mountbatten chose as his office was his father, Prince Louis of Battenberg, who was forced to" resign at the outbreak of World War I, after 45 years of devoted naval service, because of public outcry over his German birth. Though...