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...wartime administrator and ambassador, ex-Businessman Harriman had dealt long and intimately with Europe's politicians and problems. He had attended almost every Big Three conference, had ad ministered lend-lease in London, served as ambassador to Russia and to Great Britain. As Secretary of Commerce, he had dealt with allocations and export licenses; as chairman of the Harriman committee (which took careful measure of the U.S. economy), he had helped fashion ERP. "He is almost the indispensable man," said Hoffman. This week the Senate approved his nomination...
Reporting after a month-long questioning of University officials in and out of the department, the investigators recommended that the Visiting Committee on Geological Sciences request the formation of an ad hoc committee to study the place of Geography at Harvard with an eye to its re-institution...
...director of a London steeplejack firm, doubted it. He had long been growing discouraged over the apathy of Britain's steeple jacks ; the good climbers were too old, and the young ones too unwilling to face the hazards of their calling. But within two days after the Times ad, Eserin received applications from 1,500 adventurers willing to scale the heights for $40-$60 weekly. They included a former submarine officer, David Lewis, who had tired of his sedentary office job (see cut), an archeologist, and a clutch of would-be steeple jills...
...Duchess of Sutherland, whose 59-year-old duke is one of England's great landowners, did a little job of work just before she sailed home from Manhattan. The shapely duchess did some modeling for a forthcoming cold-cream ad...
Sitting Pretty (20th Century-Fox). A suburban Mr. & Mrs. (Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara), harassed by their three small boys, an outsized dog and a dearth of baby sitters, run a Help Wanted ad. Result: one Lynn Belvedere is hired sight unseen. To their dismay, Lynn turns out to be a middle-aged male (Clifton Webb), who coolly describes himself as a genius. He is also a polysyllabic practitioner of yoga, and easily the most versatile handyman since Leonardo da Vinci. Before he is done with solving problems and subjugating parents, he fries the whole community...