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...into public health work 34 years ago. Nashville-born and bred (he got his M.D. at Nashville's Vanderbilt University), he rose through the ranks of Tennessee's Department of Public Health to the Commissioner's post in 1924. He had the department running like clockwork when TVA came along and bid for his services...
Help from the Men. Since beautiful Prima Ballerina Margot Lander retired in February, the Royal Ballet has sorely missed a female dancer who could rival England's Margot Fonteyn (TIME, Nov. 14). And the company as a whole could not quite match the glittering polish and clockwork precision drilled into the Sadler's Wells troupe. But the Danes proved to be second to none in their male stars...
Malik had seemed very angry when he was speaking, but as soon as he left the Council room he laughed and joked with newsmen. Even Malik's chauffeur plays the curious Security Council walkout game: he drove up like clockwork as Malik reached the door...
...between the Clifford philosophy of frontal attack and the Steelman philosophy that the better and safer attack is an oblique one. But the difference is principally in method, not in ideology. It is not enough to interrupt the almost noiseless ticking of the Little Cabinet's well-oiled clockwork...
...shift occurred last week without the faintest clank in the clockwork. Handsome, curly-haired Clark Clifford would bow out as special counsel to the President. And 40-year-old Charles Murphy, a poker-faced North Carolinian, would bow in. The White House was generally saddened at Clifford's departure. "It's a terrible loss," said a Truman intimate. "Charlie Murphy is a hard plugger but he lacks Clifford's flair and imagination. The rest of us will just have to try and supply Charlie with what he lacks." But otherwise the mechanism of Harry Truman...