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...corps commands and supporting units (about 360,000 men) are to be picked not by the army but by a committee of "independent persons with democratic spirit." The choices will then be ratified by the Bonn cabinet and by the other five nations in EDC. Similar committees will select the remaining officers (250 colonels, 900 lieutenant colonels, 2,000 majors, 6,300 captains, 12,300 lieutenants), and "Parliament will have the last word...
Fame will come next week to the College's favorite biddy. Eliot House Committee Chairman Forrest W. Hansen '53 announced last night that six House Committees, in conjunction with the CRIMSON, will select the favorite maid of each House. A special panel will then choose Harvard's favorite from them...
...student or group of students in an entry who think their maid should be the favorite should list their reasons and give the lists to members of the House committees, Hansen said. The committees will meet next Tuesday to select the House choice...
...most resorts, it was built by a millionaire with a whim of iron. In the winter of 1885-86, Pierre Lorillard V (snuff and tobacco), with the aid of $1,500,000 and 1,800 personally imported Italian laborers, turned 600,000 acres of Ramapo Hills country into a select colony of stately pleasure domes. Once a "must" among top society resorters, it is now, by comparison, a social ghost town...
President Truman rushed a telegram asking that General Eisenhower place representatives in the State and Defense Departments "at the earliest possible moment." An Eisenhower aide indicated the General would select these representatives at once and get them to Washington...