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Another active politician was Harold Clayton Urey, Nobel Prizewinner and discoverer of heavy water. From headquarters in Chicago, he made lobbying forays to Washington, delivered speeches, organized U.S. scientists. Said he: "Men are going where they can work with less heckling, where they don't have to go through armed guards, where they can get reports on work that bears on their work...
Thanks to Howard Bay's sets, it never loses its looks. Jan Clayton (Carousel) proves a winning Magnolia, Colette Lyons an agreeable Ellie, Buddy Ebsen a live dancing personality and Ralph Dumke a jovial Captain Andy. And handsome Carol Bruce, tackling the Bill that made the late Helen Morgan famous, brought down the opening-night house...
Gridiron merrymaking follows a peculiarly American pattern. Nowhere else could so many watch the faces of a President, his Cabinet and Supreme Court Justices taking lampoonery aimed right between their eyes. In one satiric skit, Gridironers ribbed U.S. foreign policy aboard "The Acheson, the Clayton & the James F. Byrnes." In another, "General MacArthur" sang...
There were other heartening signs of reviving trade. Many cotton mills have resumed production, thanks to the first shipments of cotton from Anderson, Clayton & Co. In the best free enterprising tradition, Anderson, Clayton had shipped the cotton without knowing who would buy it or how it would be paid...
Traders feared that the Chinese Government would handle the cotton, thus set a pattern for state trading. But the Government, significantly, let the cotton be sold through private channels. Paying Anderson, Clayton was more complicated. Buyers paid Chinese dollars to Chinese merchants with dollar balances in the U.S. The latter then paid Anderson, Clayton...