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Behind him, he left Larry O'Brien and Ralph Dungan, two of the ablest members of his Washington staff, to work on the unionists. A few blocks away, in a single room with bath at the Daniel Boone Hotel, Humphrey's lone advance man, Rein Vander Zee, was busily plotting strategy. From all the signs, West Virginia, scene of classic feuds and four major battles of the Civil War, is about to become a dark and bloody ground once more...
Julius Nyerere, 38, a small, mustached onetime schoolteacher who was one of 26 children, will soon be in charge of Britain's Tanganyika trust territory (German before World War I), an East African land as large as France and Germany combined. By common consent, he is the ablest of the rising new crop of African leaders...
...high picture enraged many, as Dali's works usually do. But it is a major work by one of the ablest, strangest and least understood of living artists. Dali himself, with cat's eyes agleam and mustachios en garde, speaks of it as "a meta-pheesical dream." It took Dali six months to paint, and one syndicate reporter estimated that it also put $250,000 in his pocket. The estimate seems absurdly high, perhaps triple the actual price. Says Hartford: "If a quarter of a million dollars is intended as a compliment to Mr. Dali...
Eric Ambler, one of England's ablest writers of thrillers (Journey into Fear) and movie scripts (A Night to Remember, The Cruel Sea), evades the answers to these questions quite as skillfully as Novelist Hammond Innes did in the 1956 bestseller on which this film is based, and the result is a sloshing good scupperful of salt water and suspense. Director Michael (Around the World in 80 Days) Anderson has kept the story going full ahead, and has wrung a remarkable amount of histrionic blood from one of cinema's best-known stones, the face of Gary Cooper...
...capital. A Democratic Representative who has clashed with him on economic policies freely concedes that he is a "very great American." A fellow Cabinet officer whose department has felt the paining pinch of Anderson's insistence on balanced budgets calls him "one of the very ablest men in public life during the past 20 years." Adds another Cabinet member: "In this Washington scramble, the most refined form of cannibalism ever devised, it's just about impossible to find anybody who has anything nasty to say about Bob Anderson." Says Economist Gabriel Hauge, White House economic adviser from...