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Meanwhile, things have been picking up in the local dinghy department. Last Sunday, while the rest of the College slept off its post-football hangovers, Frank Scully, Dick Braisted, and Stew Clifford led the field home in the freshman qualifying rounds for the dinghy championship finals this week. Scully, assisted by another. Freshman, Jack Gardner, breezed home first in five races and finished second in the sixth...
...Subservience before the boss is a talent of statesmanship which Harry Truman mastered to perfection. Endless readiness to serve his Wall Street master-this is what finally took the small Missourian to the White House. . . . Let Vandenberg, Byrnes, Dulles, Hoover manager him, and let Clark Clifford . . . write his speeches for him. Let Truman only read them tolerably well. Thus Harry Truman has become the clerk of American imperialism. . . . He no longer says, as formerly, that he never takes political decisions without consulting his wife. He knows now with whom to consult! . . . In his squeaky voice already is heard the sound...
Cables popping into Washington told about the touchy little incident at Trieste. The top brass got a little excited. Jimmy Forrestal thought it was time to show some of the old hustle. He talked to Clark Clifford at the White House. Off went a radio to the President, who was aboard the Missouri returning from Rio. Forrestal was all set to get the ceremony out of the way in a hurry. From the Missouri, Harry Truman radioed back: go ahead; in view of the international situation, the U.S. should have a Secretary of Defense in office...
Broadway Producer Jed Harris (Broadway, Coquette, Our Town) was not in the mood for love. "There's been a decline in the quality of writing," he told Columnist Ward Morehouse. "What do you expect, when Moss Hart can make $280,000 from the movies on a flop?" Otherwise: "Clifford Odets isn't writing because he can't. George Kaufman isn't getting any younger. ... Philip Barry never wrote anything that would draw me into a theater. The best thing Maxwell Anderson ever wrote was Ingrid Bergman." Swore Play-Producer Harris: "I hope I never have...
...members of the NSO Continuations Committee, set up last December to call the convention, Douglass Cater '46 1 P.A., Clifford R. Wharton, Jr. '47, and Donald S. Wilner '47; will play prominent roles at the Madison meetings...