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...Philippines, David Jones was impressed by the earnest efforts of Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay (TIME, March 19, et seq.) to rout out the last of the Communist-led Hukbalahaps-but he wasn't much impressed by Philippine army intelligence. At the Y.M.C.A. in Manila, Jones bet a fellow boarder $100 that he, David Jones, could do better than Magsaysay's G2. He went to the flamboyant Defense Secretary and offered to try his hand at espionage. Magsaysay accepted : "You will either make good your boast or a fool of yourself...
...gathered around him a brilliant, erratic crew of staffers and contributors (Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, Edwin Markham, Homer Davenport, et al.), entertained them by dancing jigs in the office, striding through the streets with a cane that whistled, and in more corruptive ways. He was great fun to work for; after a hard day in the newsroom he liked to gather the staff at his big house for lavish parties complete [said horrified gossips] with "abandoned dancing girls." After his father died (1891), someone complained to his mother that Willie was wasting the family fortune away at $1 million...
Ointment, Not Lash. Now, in the space of one year, he himself had translated the Dulles words into the Dulles deed: the Japanese Treaty (TIME, Jan. 22 et seq.). It was not yet an accomplished fact; the treaty still teetered in the balance of events. On Sept. 4, some 50 nations (he hoped) would meet in San Francisco to sign it; the U.S. Senate and the other governments would have to confirm it. "The treaty," Dulles has anxiously observed, "is in jeopardy every day of its life...
JOURNALISM. Since the murder of La Prensa (TIME, March 12, et seq.), Buenos Aires' last surviving independent daily is La Natión-proud, conservative, accurate. Argentines who hunger for honest news instead of government pap now queue up at the paper's office at 6 a.m. to buy the few extra copies available (Perón controls the newsprint and holds the circulation down to 180,000 daily). Dealers sell copies for 25 times the normal price. When La Natión reported last week's rail strike factually instead of parroting the government line...
...coming Trabert, National Clay Court and Intercollegiate champion (TIME, July 23 et seq.), learned his lesson in less time-three straight sets. Tony, a blaster of driving shots from baseline and net, never could set himself against Talbert's well-placed drives and drop shots, and was constantly on the defensive-a phase of the game he does not understand. The score...