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In Santa Barbara, Calif., General of the Army George C. Marshall commented on recent tributes from Presidential Candidates Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson: "They are both my boys. I sent General Eisenhower to Europe. Governor Stevenson, with me while I was Secretary of State, gave valuable assistance on both the United Nations and our program for economic aid to Europe. My father was a Republican and my mother a Democrat, and my Army service has been so demanding that I have not had time to do much voting or take sides politically."

Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy and former U.N. truce negotiator in Korea, entered Bethesda Naval Hospital with a serious case of virus pneumonia complicated by anemia. At week's end his condition was reported "satisfactory."

In Washington, Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt S. Vandenberg reported back for duty at his Pentagon desk, after a four-month convalescence from a sudden and serious operation.

The Pentagon was suddenly a brighter place last week for WACs, WAFs and secretaries. Cinemactor James Stewart, a reserve colonel in the Air Force, took time out from play-acting and reported for duty to work on an indoctrination film for new airmen and members of the WAF.

Major General Robert W. Grow, court-martialed and convicted last month for including classified material in his personal diary and allowing it to fall into Russian hands, was given a new tour of duty: a desk job in the office of the Army's Chief of Military History.

On one of the Brijoni islands off the Dalmatian coast, a photographer snapped Yugoslavia's Strong Man Marshal Tito enjoying a holiday, a good cigar and one of his favorite playthings, a new three-dimensional camera.

In Greenwich, England, Noel Coward was fined -L-1 for driving his white Jaguar 40 m.p.h. in a 30-mi. zone. The celebrated wit's unwitty line: "My speedometer wasn't working."

Near Rome, Orson Welles, who had just bought a new Lancia Aurelia for $4,629, had a rattling good shakeup, but no serious injury, when the car crashed into a tree after a blowout. Condition of the car: "completely ruined."

Queen Elizabeth II gave her royal approval for a British movie company to make From Cradle to Crown, a 70-minute biographical film to be released during the coronation celebrations.

A reporter who met the boat train to Paris spotted Estes Kefauver. on his way to Switzerland, traveling with Perle Mesta, who was returning to her job as U.S. Minister to Luxembourg. Had they talked politics? "Oh, no," said Madame Minister, "I'm in the State Department. We don't talk politics."

Another reporter saw Producer George Jessel passing through Paris on his way to Israel, and asked him about his future plans. Said Jessel: "I would like to be the United States Ambassador to Israel. Of course, it depends on the elections. If the Democrats get in, I may have a chance. I think I'd make a good ambassador."

A dozen years after he left the small town (pop. 3,587) of Wadesboro, N.C. to make his fame and fortune in big-time politics, Theron Lamar Caudle, former Assistant Attorney General of the U.S., was back home again. During his first interview since he left Washington after getting fired in the wake of the tax scandals, he said: "I'm starting all over again . . . I wanted to come back and take over my father's home and have myself a country law practice."

Bernarr (Body Love) Macfadden arrived in Paris to celebrate his 84th birthday. On his 81st he had parachuted over Dansville, N.Y.; on his 83rd he had jumped into the Hudson River. This time he had police permission to try it over the Seine. He rose early, did leg exercises for 30 minutes in bed, chawed down four cups of yoghurt, imbibed a quart of fresh orange juice and left for Orly Field, where the French Society of Parachute Veterans finally wangled a plane and parachute after other plane-owners and pilots had Backed out of the stunt. Wearing his red flannel jumping pajamas and a sprightly grin, Macfadden kissed his wife (No. 3) and boarded the plane. At 1,000 feet he jumped. Floating gently down toward the Seine, he hummed his favorite song, I Love Life. Moments later he landed with a thud in a vacant lot, 50 yards from his river target. Said he: "I'm ready to jump again when I'm 85."

The American Political Science Association, meeting in Buffalo for its 48th annual convention, elected as its next president Nobel Peace Prizewinner Dr. Ralph Bunche. The association also announced some jointly sponsored annual awards:

Samuel Lubell, author of The Future of American Politics, winner of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book on government and democracy.

George Kennan, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, who won the Freedom House-Willkie Memorial Building Award for his book, American Diplomacy, 1900-1950.

In Manhattan, photographers caught old Newsman Franklin P. Adams in a relaxed and happy mood. He was back as a television star on Information Please; he had finished another (his 15th) book and was working on his 16th; and he had left his labors long enough to welcome his son, Corporal Timothy Adams, home safe & sound from Korea.

According to his will, filed in Wilmington, Del., the late Lammot du Pont, who died in July six days after the 150th anniversary of the founding of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., left a personal estate of cash, bonds and real estate worth $75 million. Chief beneficiary: the Government, which will bite off an inheritance tax of $56,138,200.

Former Senator Millard Tydings of Maryland had another round of newspaper shadow-boxing with Joe McCarthy, the Senator from Wisconsin (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Joe swung first, with the statement that since Tydings was contributing money to the Wisconsin campaign, he should show his face there. Tydings said he would be delighted to appear if he could debate the issue of McCarthyism with its begetter. Answered McCarthy: "I wouldn't care to waste time debating with the dead." Retorted Tydings: "He's the only Marine I ever heard of who declared a war and then ran for his foxhole before a shot was ever fired."

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