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At California's Travis Air Force Base, Major John Eisenhower had a brief meeting with Marine Lieut. Allen Macy Dulles, son of the new head of Central Intelligence Agency and nephew of the Secretary of State. The major was on his way back to Korea to finish his tour of duty; the lieutenant, a stretcher patient bound for Bethesda Naval Hospital and further treatment for battle wounds.
His former lawyer dropped a footnote on Fritz Kuhn, the Gauleiter of the German-American Bund, who was kicked out of the U.S. in 1945 after 17 years' residence: unmourned, unknown and broke, Kuhn died Nov. 14, 1951, of a heart attack, in a Munich hospital.
In Hollywood, onetime Cinemactor John Agar, former husband of Shirley Temple, who was still on probation for a 1951 drunken driving conviction, was picked up again. The judge sent him back to jail to finish the 120 days of his original sentence, and promised a further sentence on the new offense.
Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra for the past 24 years, was made honorary fire chief of Pittsburgh, the seventh city to give him such a title so far in his cross-country concert tour. Reason: Boston Fire Chief Michael Kelleher had written advance letters to all cities on the tour suggesting that his fire-buff musical friend might like the honor. Potential titles yet to come: 52.
In London, Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that Westminster Abbey, built in 1245, is "falling into decay." He asked that English-speaking people throughout the world join in a donation drive to raise $2,800,000 to repair and save "this historic edifice which links the past with the present and gives us confidence in the future."