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Leathery, poker-faced U.S. Ambassador Alan G. Kirk, Admiral, U.S.N. (ret.), came home for a holiday visit from his Moscow post, where he had found himself a mariner becalmed in the eye of a hurricane. He slipped in quietly to see Harry Truman, reportedly told the President he could detect "absolutely no evidence" that Russia is about to start...
Commuting Comfort. Across the bridge barefoot people in tall conical hats come pat-patting with heavy bundles and baskets slung from bamboo poles. They are on their way to work. Each Chinese commuter carries a special pass issued by the French Súreté. One side is printed in French, signed by a French official; the other side is printed in Chinese for the convenience of Tonghing's Communist police...
...State Department building, in the balconied room where President Truman holds his press conferences, twelve Canadian and U.S. civil defense planners got together to translate some of the talk into action. Led by Canada's bristly Coordinator of Civil Defense, Major General Frederick Franklin Worthington (ret.), and U.S. Acting Civil Defense Director James Wadsworth, the delegates started to work out a unified program...
EDWARD STEICHEN Captain, U.S.N.R. (ret.) New York City...
...Democrats again won the eight contested Southern seats as anticipated. Lister Hill, Alabama's senior senator, defeated Independent Democrat candidate Admiral John C. Crommelin (ret...