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...President rested last week out on the end of a long limb of land-at Key West, Fla. Resting there with him was his counsel and legal adviser, Clark Clifford. While Clifford beamed on his smiling boss, Mr. Truman turned a tanned and apparently carefree face toward the photographers; Clifford himself glistened with confidence and sunburn oil. Looking at the two of them, no one would suspect the gravity of the problems which arrived daily in the pouch from, Washington. No one would suspect, in fact, that the country appeared to be getting ready to dump the whole Truman Administration...
...means complete. Mr. Truman may have thought that he was in the middle of the road, and privately he often talked convincingly as if that was where he wanted to find himself. But whenever he opened his mouth to deliver one of the messages prepared by Clifford, the President talked like a New Dealer. And Adviser Clifford was kept busy scribbling. He wrote the tax vetoes; the Taft-Hartley veto; the October 1947 call for a special session; the State of the Union message last January; this year's Jackson Day dinner speech and the civil-rights message. There...
Managing the Team. In another, subtler way Clifford also made his influence felt. The President likes to boast that he has the best Cabinet since Rutherford B. Hayes.* At least two members of his Cabinet-George Marshall and James Forrestal-are men of unusual ability and integrity. Certainly Mr. Truman's Cabinet works together without any audible bickering. The President thinks of them as a "great team." But a team is no good without a good manager. The nine Cabinet members work in as many different fields; there are bound to be serious differences of opinion. When the Truman...
Merrill Lynch reported that its customers range from Steelworker Clifford Blackmore of Pittsburgh, "an active member of his C.I.O. local," to Cinemactor Ronald Colman. Customer Hugh L. Gary, Greenwood (Miss.) farmer, got into the market to hedge his cotton crop just as Chairman Harry A. Bullis of General Mills, Inc. hedged to protect General Mills inventories...
Identification of minerals by X-ray analysis of their atomic structure will make the University's Berman Memorial Laboratory the world's "most complete reference library" of mineral photographs within a year, Clifford Frondel and Cornelius S. Hurlburt, Jr., associate professors of Mineralogy and directors of the laboratory, announced yesterday...