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Two old grads of Georgetown University, Republican National Chairman Leonard Hall ('20) and Democratic National Chairman Stephen A. Mitchell ('28), agreed to meet this week at their alma mater and debate a subject dear to both their hearts: Is it wiser to be a Democrat or a Republican?

Durable Cinemactress Joan Crawford hopped off a train in Manhattan, allowed that the weather was colder than it was in home town San Antonio, where she had dropped off for a visit, then rushed away to have "a little fun in New York."

A Civil Aeronautics Board examiner lifted the private-pilot's license of Radio-TV's Arthur Godfrey for six months. The examiner found that Godfrey, flying "in a careless and reckless manner," deliberately buzzed the defenseless control tower at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport last January.

After seeing a picture of Benjamin Fairless, 63, U.S. Steel's president, in a company publication, the Federation of Women Shareholders in American Business advised him that he is getting too fat, suggested that he pass up dinner-table dividends and get a proxy to bolt food for him at six-course banquets.

In Australia the Duke of Edinburgh became the butt of some friendly hazing when he dropped in for a look at Melbourne University. As he stepped from his car, an honor guard of students, bearing mops and dressed as Eastern potentates, rolled out a moth-eaten carpet for him.

Another delegation pounced upon Philip and presented him with a cricket bat and a pair of crutches. Later the Duke and Queen Elizabeth II, both inoculated as a precaution with some of the first Australian-produced gamma globulin, went by train to northern Victoria, where a polio outbreak has cropped up.

Robert Moses, the man who has long presided over the planning of New York City's parks, playgrounds and highways, was upped by Governor Thomas E. Dewey to the chairmanship of New York's State Power Authority, a job which will put Moses on top of such projects as the $300 million St. Lawrence River hydroelectric development.

In England, the city fathers of Manchester fussed and fumed over whether to pay Sculptor Henry Moore a generous -L-760 for a lumpy chunk of bronze called Draped Torso, which looked like a vandalized nightgown. Murmured one alderman: "I wish it were a statue of Marilyn Monroe." Sneered a Moore supporter: "This is a work of art." An anti-Moore man retorted: "Is the councilor insinuating that Marilyn Monroe is not a work of art?" Moore's Torso lost the vote, 46 to 48.

Haile ("King of Kings") Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, and his wife. Queen Woizero Menen, struck dignified poses for a formal portrait photograph, ably concealing their anticipation about their forthcoming safari into the darkest wilds of Europe and the U.S.

One of Hitler's most agile hatchetmen, former SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny, who had whiled away many postwar years in Madrid as the constant companion of Use Luettge, decided to go respectable. Strapping, scar-faced Otto took Use, a niece of former Nazi Finance Minister Hjalmar Schacht, to a sleepy Castilian village and married her in a civil ceremony. Madrid's sizable German colony cheered, but good, churchgoing Madrilenos prepared to ignore the newlyweds.

In Kansas City, Mo., a self-employed citizen who listed his occupations as "writer, lecturer and farmer" got a Social-Security card at the age of 69. The new card holder: Harry S. Truman. Later, Truman headed east and turned up in Boston, where he held a press conference and assured reporters: "There aren't an eyeful of Communists in the whole country--and I'm not afraid of them."

The Korean war's most famed P.W., Major General William F. Dean, who has been interested in eye banks ever since last fall, when he had a cataract removed, decided to will his eyes to the Stanford University Hospital for eventual transplanting of their corneas to a blind person.

After a revival meeting in Little Rock, Ark., Dr. Mordecai Fowler Ham, 76, who claims to have made Baptists of some 2,000,000 people (his star convert: Evangelist Billy Graham), exposed a reporter to some old-fashioned hellfire and brimstone. "I like to tell people that just an outward appearance of being a Christian isn't enough," roared Dr. Ham fiercely. "You can't just quit drinking and think you're saved. You'll just go to hell sober, that's all."

Australia's Prime Minister Robert G. Menzies, who will run with his fellow Tories for re-election in May, got advance notice that the going may be rough. No sooner was Canberra's House of Parliament opened to visitors than an oil portrait of Menzies turned up with its throat slashed, shoulder to shoulder.

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