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...among many other things, the U.N.'s first military commander in chief. So, in honor of what would have been his 85th birthday, his widow Jean joined city officials in dedicating a Manhattan street and park bounding U.N. headquarters as General Douglas Mac-Arthur Plaza...
MacArthur's career is traced in old film clips from the prewar Philippines (young Ike appears as a fresh-faced staff officer running messages for "imperious" Mac) through the Pacific and Korean wars. MacArthur's military accomplishments are somewhat grudgingly acknowledged, but to prove his thesis what Truman seizes on with evident relish are such anecdotes as that of the general who had thought MacArthur's father was the most egotistical and self-centered man on earth-until he met MacArthur himself...
...didn't this time--in fact Mac didn't make a ball-handling bobble all day. On the long drive he let Poe and Conway do most of the work, with Grant a decoy. Neil Curtin and John Hoffman were tearing giant holes in the right side of the UMass line and another constant soft spot turned up over right guard...
...haired darling of Canada's mining men. Miners had elected Viola president of the Prospectors and Developers Association 21 times, and serenaded her each time with a lively rendition of Let Me Call You Sweetheart. She and her husband George, the president of Windfall, were called "the mining Mac-Millans." They also kept stockholders in the dark. To one questioner, Viola replied cryptically: "A lot of people are going to be surprised...
...companies controlled by the MacMillans held 900,000 shares in Windfall-and Canadian law, unlike that in the U.S., does not force company officers to disclose what they have bought or sold. The Toronto Stock Exchange took a close look at Consolidated Golden Arrow Mines Ltd., one of Viola Mac-Millan's companies. At the exchange's request, Viola disclosed that at the beginning of June, Golden Arrow had owned 120,000 shares of Windfall, then bought an additional 38,000 shares for $30,778. All of these 158,000 shares, she said, had been sold during...