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John Jay McCloy, 65, director of the U.S. Disarmament Administration. Bald, brusque Banker-Lawyer McCloy, a Republican, has a flair for doing the almost impossible-a characteristic that suits his new job of supervising the new Administration's disarmament policy. A graduate of Amherst ('16) and Harvard Law School, McCloy began his Government life at the edge of World War II. After resigning from his Manhattan law practice, he became a troubleshooting assistant to the Secretary of War, worked in the distinguished circle that included General George C. Marshall, Robert A. Lovett, James Forrestal, Robert Patterson...
...began the climb that is familiar to so many painters. There was the dreary little hotel on the Rue Dauphine "where you cooked under a sign that said 'cooking prohibited.' " In 1952 he had his first Paris one-man show, and on its second day, a kindly bald-headed man dropped in and stayed for 20 minutes. The man was Pablo Picasso; his comment: "Well done." Though Downing still works each afternoon in a U.S. law office as a sort of office boy, his afterhours reputation has mounted steadily...
...Bald & Proud. Scarcely had the visitors unpacked when Kennedy ordered them out for one of his frequent rounds of golf- (no pictures, please, ordered Kennedy's aides). With security agents lurking with gun and radio in the rough, the group pounded away, but flatly refused to disclose their scores. Word got around that when Mr. Sam beheld Johnson's first drive, he said hell, he could do as well as that...
...Bald, bitterly competitive Dick Groat, 30, shortstop and captain of the Pittsburgh Pirates, was voted the National League's most valuable player for leading the league in hitting (.325) and providing the spark that fired his team to its first pennant since 1927 and a World Series victory over the Yankees...
...also had a series of 11 low-budget Workshop productions. Besides providing one student a chance to test his playwrting on audiences (as indicated earlier), the Theatre Workshop gave Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, Ionesco's The Bald Soprano, Adamov's Professor Taranne, Fry's A Phoenix Too Frequent, Synge's Shadow of the Glen, Genet's The Maids, David English's Waiting for Goodman, Robert Shure's Twink, Ionesco's Jack and O'Neill's The Rope. The production of the last-named was totally inept, but the rest were well worth a visit, with outstanding performances...