Word: ex-ambassador
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...women's-page editors (mostly females) across the U.S., learned that almost a quarter of the distaffers were dead set against the idea of any woman's election as U.S. Vice President. The rest named some favorites. Top choices: Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith, ex-Ambassador to Italy (1953-57) Clare Boothe Luce, Eleanor Roosevelt...
...military-assistance program, the committee members did some on-the-spot reporting themselves. Chairman Draper, 65, once Army Under Secretary (1947-49) and later top U.S. civilian representative to NATO (1952-53), personally inspected forces in the Korea-Japan-Formosa area. Oilman George Mc-Ghee, 47, an ex-Ambassador, to Turkey (1951-53), and Admiral Arthur Radford, tough-minded ex-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1953-57), toured the Middle East. Operating in five such groups, the committee members returned to Washington, in March handed Ike an interim report warning that his $1.6 billion budget request for military...
...diplomat who knew him well says that if Mikoyan had emigrated to the U.S. he would now be "heading his own export-import firm with a triplex apartment on Park Avenue." But ex-Ambassador Walter ("Beedle") Smith, less impressed, says, "Take away his ZIS limousine and Mikoyan would look like just another rug peddler in Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo...
...University of Notre Dame's Laetare Medal, awarded annually for the past 74 years to outstanding U.S. Roman Catholic laymen, will go this year to ex-Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce for "her brilliant and singularly versatile career ... in the worlds of diplomacy, politics [Republican Congresswoman from Connecticut], the theater [The Women'], and letters [Europe in the Spring']." In Manhattan Clare Luce got word of the honor while plotting a new play (tentative title: The Little Dipper), all about a kleptomaniac, with Silent Cinemactresses Lillian and Dorothy Gish waiting in the wings for co-starring roles...
RUSSIA LEAVES THE WAR, by George F. Kennan. Ex-Ambassador Kennan starts a massive (the first volume of three) attempt to show how U.S. liberal statesmanship tried, and failed, to play ball with Russian ideology during and after World War I. No book this year has documented so carefully and so effectively the impossibility of matching deceit with good will...