War & Peace

Back from the NATO meetings in Rome, Secretary of the Army Frank Pace arrived at Washington's National Airport, where a bright-eyed young lady gave photographers the chance to record a candid study in the technique of homecoming welcome. With happy six-year-old abandon, Priscilla Pace catapulted to the arms of her father, who welcomed the assault with obvious pleasure. At week's end Pace left his official problems long enough to go on another trip, this time to join the gold braid section in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium, where he watched Navy trounce Army, 42-7.

Representing the top college football team in the East, Princeton's Captain Dave Hickok and Coach Charlie Caldwell accepted the Lambert Trophy which goes with the title. Later, another tradition was followed when the father of an alumnus invited the varsity members to be his guests for a day of pheasant hunting on his 1,500-acre estate near Princeton. In fine fettle, Tiger Star Dick Kazmaier-proved that his trigger finger was just as good as his passing eye by bagging a brace of birds.

Hungarian-born Caterers Frederick and Maria Floris, who own a farm near Chartwell, Kent, followed their ten-year-old custom of baking a birthday cake for their well-known neighbor Winston Churchill. For the Prime Minister's 77th birthday, they delivered to 10 Downing Street a monumental 80-lb. confection in the shape of a flat-topped bowler hat, heavily iced with chocolate and decorated with 200 fancy sugary feathers commemorating some of the honors and triumphs in the long Churchillian career./- Biggest feather of all bore the name Clementine, for his wife, who has shared his ups & downs for the past 43 years.

* For other news of Princeton's Kazmaier, see SPORT.

/- Including a paraphrase from TIME'S most recent Churchill cover story (his eighth): "Where they saw despair, he saw hope; where they saw defeat, he saw challenge; where they saw surrender, he saw opportunity to attack. And in the darkness of 1940, he dared to tell history: 'This is our finest hour.' "

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