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...move in the gambit is the return of Andrei Gromyko to the world outside the Iron Curtain. The most experienced and brainiest of the band of hostile, icy "new generation" Communists who today are Russia's representatives to the outside world, Gromyko is plainly a big gun in the Foreign Ministry. In three years as Ambassador to the U.S. and two as Soviet delegate to the United Nations, his showing was brilliant enough (by Kremlin standards) to make him heir presumptive to Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky, whose health is none too good. In sending him to London instead...
...fourth time Eleanor Roosevelt headed the annual Book of Knowledge list of the world's brainiest women. On the list for the third time: Senator Margaret Chase Smith, Anatomist Dr. Florence Reno Sabin, New York Times Foreign Correspondent & Columnist Anne O'Hare McCormick, Mme. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, former Indian Ambassador to the U.S. On the list for the second time: Correspondent Marguerite Higgins. Among those who made it for the first time: Social Worker Katharine Lenroot, Physicist Lise Meitner, Princess Elizabeth, Assistant Defense Secretary Anna Rosenberg, Actress Judy (Born Yesterday) Holliday, Mrs. Ogden Reid, publisher...
Computing machines are getting brainier and brainier. Latest and brainiest is SEAC (Standards Eastern Automatic Computer), built in Washington by the National Bureau of Standards...
...Frank Culling Albert is easily the most spectacular T-quarterback going, and possibly the brainiest (chief rival: Sid Luckman of the Chicago Bears). Frankie is light (170 lbs.) and fast, and constantly working at what he considers his great talent: ball handling. Even in practice, he constantly asks his teammates whether they could see the ball on that last play. After one game, he asked the radio announcer how often he fooled...
...heart-quickening.. One good and typical reason could be found in the young stalwart who led the parade this week. Chosen by the Tactical Officers last June to command the Corps of Cadets during his final year, First Cadet Captain Robert Evans ("Woody") Woods was not necessarily the brainiest (he was 605th at graduation), the most personable, nor the most popular member of his class. He was chosen because he best combined the qualities that West Point stands...