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Perkins agreed last night with the Lowell House decision to stage their operetta on the weekend. "Judging from the small number of Lowell House men at our dance last Saturday, I don't imagine you'd get more than a 'ho-hum' out of any Lowell man now if you told him we are not going to have a dance that weekend," he said...
Diem intended his second tour to shame Communist President Ho Chi Minh, who has barely stirred from his Hanoi palace since last fall. Diem's second big ovation confirmed that his strength lies increasingly among nationalist-minded villagers who suffered Communist depredations during the war, rather than among the aperitif drinkers in French Saigon...
...disaster in Indo-China left no doubt that three Communists were the Men of the Year in Asia. The victory belonged to Communist China's Premier Mao Tse-tung, his Foreign Minister Chou Enlai, and to Ho Chi Minh, the leader of the Viet Minh. For a considerable measure of recovery from the Indo-China disaster, the free world could thank John Foster Dulles. First Dulles hammered out and pushed through the Manila Pact, which committed eight nations to take joint action against subversion and aggression in Asia...
Last week in Hanoi, Sainteny proudly unveiled something he called "an agreement," but which Ho Chi Minh referred to as a "joint declaration between the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam (a self-styled propaganda title) and a delegation of French economic experts." French business firms could "retain present form," it was proclaimed, but only subject to Ho's "sovereignty and legislation." French products could be "freely" sold, but Ho's government orders "must be executed first." French businessmen could "freely" send profits abroad, but the percentages and other such details would be worked out later "by common agreement...
Only a Memory. From 19th century diaries and newspaper notices, and old playbills, the play has long been known about. Its author was Novelist James Kirke (Westward Ho!*) Paulding, and it was first put on by famed Actor-Producer James H. Hackett under the title The Lion of the West. For London, Hackett had it rewritten as The Kentuckian, or a Trip to New York, and in the nation's capital its subtitle became A Trip to Washington. A hit for more than 20 years, the play was never published. After Paulding and Hackett died, the memory of their...