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Missions to Moscow. The man who was supposed to know the most about I.P.R.'s inner workings was Edward Clark Carter, 73 (Harvard, class of 1900), a onetime Y.M.C.A. careerist who joined I.P.R.'s staff in 1926, became secretary general (1933-45) and then executive vice chairman. When Carter was summoned before the committee, he smiled a gentle, professorial smile and gave rambling answers. Lawyer Morris undertook to show that Carter had a long-standing softheartedness toward Soviet Russia. He had been instrumental in setting up a Russian Council of I.P.R. (with Stalin's brother...
...State Department has a Bureau of U.N. Affairs under Assistant Secretary John D. Hickerson, a bouncy, pipe-smoking, veteran careerist. From this clearing point, directives flow to the Lake Success delegation-a staff of about 180, headquartered at 2 Park Avenue...
...last the young careerist finds himself involved with a beautiful woman-only to realize that she is making love to him solely because she wants her husband to become a minister, and that his own father, who thinks it would be rather good for Lucien's career to have a socially prominent mistress, has been encouraging the whole scheme. To this depth Lucien's ideals cannot let him sink...
Elizabeth Arden Graham, shrewd careerist of paddock (Maine Chance Farm) and beauty parlor, observed: "Women and fine horses are much alike. It is strictly a matter of conformation...
...right "That Winter" makes for absorbing reading, jumping from sections of tremendous flavor to impressions and episodes often mediocre. The plot centers upon Peter (his surname never appears) and his two fellow-careerist apartment-mates n Manhattan. Ted lost his arm overseas; shorn of idealism and faith, overwhelmed with wealth that is the one ingredient he needs least for happiness, he ultimately ends his life. Lew Cole has changed his Jewish name for the sake of armament in the competitive world of radio. Peter himself fights the false enticements of The Newsmagazine where he sells his soul for handsome office...