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GENERAL WALTER BEDELL SMITH, 57, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, to be Under Secretary of State. Neither a West Pointer nor a civilian college man, "Beedle" Smith came up from the enlisted ranks. He began as a private in the Indiana National Guard, was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in World War I, then climbed the Regular Army ladder until, in World War II, he was chief of staff to Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower. Blunt-spoken and incisive, he took the surrender first of the Italians and then of the Germans. After the war, he served as U.S. Ambassador...
...TIME'S covers during the next several years were a jumping horse, a champion pointer, the sea elephant Goliath II ("insanely popeyed, ponderously oozy, hideously fierce of tusk and whisker"), the race horse Cavalcade and four Derby horses on one cover...
...Riviera. Their delicate palates and foxy noses are proof against phony vintage wines; their false humility endears them to the wealthy, and their aristocratic hauteur terrifies the bandits who lurk in ambush about their tables, i.e., "doorman, door-opener, coat-hander, coat-taker, inside-door opener, up-the-stairs-pointer, director, headwaiter, assistant headwaiter . . . captain, waiter and bus boy." Lounging on luxurious hotel terraces, they nod to "Ali, Rita and Schiaparelli"; sunk in sofas "soft as a mudbath," they regale each other with romantic anecdotes of beautiful American heiresses, great dukes and greater maharajahs, heartbroken countesses and billionaires with huge...
General Harrison, a Baptist who occasionally preaches at G.I. services, is a man given to solitary prayer and meditation. Born in the District of Columbia 56 years ago, he is a direct descendant of President William Henry Harrison. A class of '17 West Pointer,* he was an assistant division commander in World War II and was wounded in France. Now deputy commander of the Eighth Army, he joined Admiral Joy's truce team last January, and was Joy's own choice for his successor...
...Then there was a tramp of feet in the hall outside the room. Stewguts slapped down the pointer and hurriedly erased the last of the flowers. Suddenly she took her sister's face in both of her hands, and, bending, gently kissed the top of her head. As the hall door opened with a burst of voices, Stewguts silently closed the cloakroom door behind her and fled...