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Smooth-talking, never at a loss for words, natty, beak-nosed Don Gabriel is his country's ablest salesman. His ready politician's smile and his man-to-man manner are so convincing that political opponents have been known to avoid his company lest they be hypnotized into agreement...
Lowered Flags. Within a few hours Canada's capital was in mourning for Laurence Steinhardt, one of the ablest and most popular ambassadors the U.S. had ever sent abroad. All over the city (except at the Soviet embassy) flags flew at half-staff. Telegraph companies hired extra messengers to deliver the stacks of telegrams. At the U.S. embassy, a second receptionist was assigned to receive the crowds that came to pay respects...
Paul Douglas, Democrat from Illinois, 58, the ablest, best-balanced liberal Democrat in the Senate and its most impressive freshman in years. He is a humanitarian who does not believe government should do all things for all men, a maverick liberal who also insists on prudent spending ("To be a liberal one does not have to be a wastrel") An ex-professor, and a veteran of Chicago's rough & tumble city council, he has the economist-sociologist mind, a notable capacity for collecting, sifting and appraising facts...
...moves, however, which might huct Attlee more than they helped. The first was the transfer of bright young (40) Hector McNeil from Minister of State in the Foreign Office to Secretary of State for Scotland. The effect of this was to deprive ailing Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin of his ablest aide. The other shuffle of doubtful value was the appointment of former Food Minister John Strachey to the post of Secretary of State for War (see below...
...shrewdness, the school signed up 2,000 citizens the first night. For a monthly fee of 50?, students could take three-month courses, six nights a week, in anthropology, psychology, music, languages, stenography, drama, mathematics, art. Guest lectures were given by more than 50 of Germany's ablest writers, scientists and politicians. The students soon discovered that Inge wanted them to discuss, not just listen. An anthropology course would start with a talk on racial differences, enter a discussion of the master race theory, and wind up with well-documented proof that no race is superior. U.S. High Commissioner...