Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everyone who had followed the mission's progress knew that it had been ignored and rebuffed. Its leader, brilliant General Hsiung Shih-fei, had been assured, a place at the tables where United Nations high strategy is made. He presented his credentials to Franklin Roosevelt, met the Army's Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall and the Navy's COMINCH Admiral Ernest J. King. He set up headquarters in a modest brick house on Embassy Row, covered its walls with maps, got ready to proffer his precious information on the war in the East...
...apartment Gangsters James O'Connor and St. Clair Mclnerney elected to shoot it out; they were mowed down by a crossfire from FBI shotguns. At the other apartment their pals woke up at 5 o'clock in the morning to find the street brilliant with searchlights, to hear a loudspeaker blare: "Basil Banghart, Roger Touhy, Edward Darlak. We know that you are in there. . . . Come out with your hands up. One at a time...
...Conductors Koussevitzky, Beecham and Walter were all in their 60s, and Conductor Toscanini was 75. The directors decided on a younger man, hesitated over the name of Dimitri Mitropoulos, glabrous Greek conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony, and finally gave the job to the less brilliant, much tougher, 49-year-old Rodzinski...
...underlying theme of "Spring Again" is slow and ponderous at its best, and the play gains deserved honors only because of its fine acting and brilliant dialogue. Both of these are best combined by Michael Rosenblatt, who merits applause as the year's finest scene-stealer in his role as the Hollywood producer trying to buy the "Home Life of the General" for the screen. "Spring Again" provides an entertaining evening, but don't feel badly if you miss the first...
...three out of four likely candidates are either nearing the retirement limit or in ill health. They are R. W. Gallagher, 46 years with Standard but now 62 years old; Wallace E. Pratt, aged 57, one of the nation's outstanding geologists; and Orville Harden, perhaps the most brilliant of Standard's board but in ill health...