People: Cultural Pursuits

General Dwight Eisenhower, who had hardly a moment to himself last week, took time to bless a typical U.S. product which many a citizen regards as a very mixed blessing. Said he: "You don't know what it means to hear language that clinks sweetly in our ears ... to hear commercials on the radio ... it means America."

Frank Sinatra, in Rome with a U.S.O. troupe, had an audience with Pope Pius XII and reported, wide-eyed, that the Pontiff had asked if he was a tenor or baritone. Said The Voice: "I was amazed the...

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