People: Sights & Sounds

Winston Churchill's waggery followed Clement Attlee to Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The Churchill crack: "Attlee is a sheep in sheep's clothing."

Harry S. Truman was assured a decent exposure at Mme. Tussaud's Waxworks in London: Presidential Aide Brigadier General Harry H. Vaughan presented Clement Attlee's secretary with an old Truman grey plaid, which the secretary promised to deliverz with a suitable shirt and tie.

Hirohito, keeping abreast of the times, packed his Army and Navy uniforms in mothballs, stored his samurai sword.

Miss America (The Bronx's Bess Meyerson, 21) got a gallery-eye view-of the...

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