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...relaxed. There was no hurling of thunderbolts, nor was there uncertainty. I realized as never before why a President is so important-to be able to give to others, at such a time, an impression of unruffled assurance and confidence. This was Eisenhower at his best...
Vice Admiral Charles Randall Brown, 58, commander of the Mediterranean-based Sixth Fleet. To Alabaman "Cat" Brown, bossing this 418,000-ton, 76-ship armada is "the best job in the whole Navy." An unruly plebe at Annapolis, he logged 300 demerits, squeezed out near the bottom of his class ('21). The exuberant Brown spirit chafed at a rash of peacetime desk jobs, boiled over in 1943. "I've got a carrier [the Kalinin Bay], and I'd like a job of work," he told Admiral Raymond A. Spruance. Snapped Spruance...
Assouad proposed Algerian self-government within a French union, as the best solution, but said he did not know whether or not Gen. DeGaulle favored complete union of France and Algeria. "De Gaulle came to power like a sphinx, not saying what his intentions were," Assouad quipped, "and perhaps without any intentions...
Basil Rathbone is an old pro; Geraldine Page is a young pro. These two stars, collaborating in Terence Rattigan's masterfully written Separate Tables, are providing the Boston Summer Theatre with its best show of the season...
This is an extremely difficult part to pull off, and Colicos acquits himself admirably. He wisely avoids the temptation of bellowing monotonously at a constant fortissimo--fortunately, for he is best when not at full volume. He manages to vary the level and manner of his delivery widely, while preserving the intensity of Leontes' derangement all the time. In his movements there are occasional hints of the ham, but they come from the best hogs...