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After a month's tour of the U.S., Liberia's popular, Bible-quoting 18th President, William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman, 58, sailed from Manhattan for Haiti. From there he will proceed to Jamaica before heading home for West Africa. While in the U.S., he picked up nine honorary degrees, was a White House guest of President Eisenhower, highlighted his visit with a foray into Georgia, the homeland of his ancestors. In Atlanta, he was welcomed by the city's white mayor but failed to meet the man who had invited him to the state, Governor Herman Talmadge, a white supremacist, who found it expedient to be elsewhere dedicating a hospital.
The editor of Foreign Affairs magazine, Hamilton Fish Armstrong, a nonpartisan man who is usually preoccupied with global concerns, sent a tut-tutting letter to the New York Times, taking the Republicans to task on a local issue: "I refer to an unfulfilled pledge made by the Republican Party in 1952 [for] 'a more efficient and frequent mail delivery service.' . . . My [Manhattan] office receives only one mail delivery a day. There is no large city in any other leading nation of the world—and I speak advisedly—where sucb a lamentable condition exists."
An ancient, 16-h.p. Dodge automobile, which had known glory as General John J. Pershing's personal staff car when he shuttled between French battlefields in World War I, wound up in the hands of a French junkman named Eugene Chaveneau. With a clear eye on turning a modest profit, Junkie Chaveneau coolly announced that the relic will be scrapped unless, for historical or sentimental reasons, it attracts a buyer by month's end.
Queen Elizabeth II, whose stables house such fleet specimens of horseflesh as her stakes-collecting four-year-old Aureole, learned that she had topped Britain's racehorse owners in supplementing her monarchial income this past season. Her total winnings: $114,780, picked up in 19 races by ten of her thoroughbreds—a record turf bonanza for a member of Britain's royal family.
*The original Sodom, at the south end of the Dead Sea, was destroyed by fire and earthquake about 1900 B.C. Some authorities call attention to a mound of salt, called "Lot's Wife," still standing near the modern Sodom.