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...Oppenheimer's good fortune that in 1928 a center of the world's ablest and most vigorous physicists was also in the west - at the California Institute of Technology, to which they had been pulled by such powerful magnets as Robert Millikan and Richard Tolman. Oppenheimer recognized that CalTech had a great deal to offer. At that time, by contrast, the University of California seemed to have "a hick school of science." Both wanted him ; he arranged to oscillate between...
Cavendish Welles Cannon is one of the State Department's ablest, most diligent desk diplomats. A U.S. newsman once remarked that Cannon had the worried manner of a village postmaster who had mislaid the day's mail. Cannon kept insisting, in his almost inaudible voice, that the conference should be conducted on "technical" rather than political lines. The Communist majority rode roughshod over the contention...
...history) or his death under Bogart's bullets, as obstinate as the rearing snake he suggests. But such images are never merely "pictorial" or "effective." Huston's style, so transparent that it would be very hard to describe, is unimitative and inimitable. It stamps Huston as the ablest American now directing pictures...
Distasteful Duty. "By whom will the public services be manned? By mediocrity and by hacks? Or by our very ablest citizens? I say it must be the latter . . . We all remember . . . that in the early years of the republic, full-time public service, though at least as distasteful as today, was not thought beneath the talents or the dignity of the ablest and most successful men. By any measure, Mr. Washington and Mr. Jefferson were not the least able citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia...
...said no so often that the poll would probably not start the G.O.P. drums rolling for him at Philadelphia. But to Republicans, the New York Herald Tribune pointed the poll's warning: "What is proved is that an overwhelming majority of ... voters are united in wanting the ablest leadership they can conceive . . . This Republican newspaper asks only that the Philadelphia convention rise to its opportunity and name .the strongest candidate who is available." The key word was the word "available...