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...their beauty, grace, charm, modesty, shyness, intelligence and spirit of sacrifice," he said. And, though he did not mention his sister (India's High Commissioner in London) by name, he went on: "Every woman who has been sent abroad has brought credit to India." India's half-dozen women M.P.s cheered...
Strator, who had successfully interested and trained several friends, then fell across Dick Corbeil, who has already won his "brown bolt"--symbol of second-highest achievement in judo. Last spring and fall, Corbeil, Strater, and a half-dozen friends worked out in the I.A.B., and this year, they have University permission to do so officially...
...Kliment E. Voroshilov, Minister of Defense and member of the Politburo. A non-com in the Czarist army, Voroshilov was made an officer by Trotsky's decree of August 13, 1918. His rise was phenomenal: reaching Defense Minister only six years later, he has ever since been among the half-dozen key men in the Moscow hierarchy. Quickly he came to close terms with William C. Bullitt, the first U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union. At a dinner party in Voroshilov's apartment on December 20, 1933--just nine days after Bullitt's arrival--the Marshal drew the ambassador aside...
SOUTH CAROLINA'S OWEN RAY MOORE, 53, who owns 60% of the American Security Insurance Co., has $250,000 invested in four auto finance companies. In 1945 Investor Moore was one of a half-dozen businessmen to take over North American's idle Dallas airplane plant, helped organize the Texas Engineering and Manufacturing Co. Temco now grosses $72 million a year as an Air Force subcontractor, with profits of $2,668,210. Says Millionaire Moore, who owns 85,534 shares of stock: "Getting in on the ground floor of anything is the surest way to make big gains...
...Anderson are fearfully true to life as the boys' Scottish Calvinist grandparents. The photography, by Eric Cross, fills the background with a balmy, natural murmur that seems to heal the young hearts as soon as they are hurt. All in all, The Little Kidnappers is one of the half-dozen best movies ever made about children...