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...authors make the business of turning mouse into man a single-tracked exercise in tortured double meanings and thin, three-cornered situations. Truex can dig a coy toe into the carpet with the best of the professional Milquetoasts; he can be equally amusing as a self-fancied Don Juan who struts only to trip. But here he is the victim of a greater incongruity-a script that manages to make sex look pretty stale...
...them: Wayne Coy, former assistant director of the Bureau of the Budget, now chairman...
...American liberalism," announced their support of Truman. In print, their names had an odd, ghostly air, as if they were historical characters stepping out of a book of Roosevelt memoirs. Among them: Francis Biddle, Frank C. Walker, Dean Acheson, Thurman Arnold, Adolf Berle, Tommy ("the Cork") Corcoran, Wayne Coy, Elmer Davis, Leon Henderson, Archibald MacLeish, Paul A. Porter, Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, Robert E. Sherwood, Aubrey Williams. A fortnight ago in Paris, U.N. Delegate Eleanor Roosevelt, who had been noticeably silent on presidential politics, took pen in hand and sent a letter to President Truman (published last week...
Television's growing pains have been showing up on receiving screens as wobbly pictures and queer noises. Last week FCC Chairman Wayne Coy ordered a halt of from "three to nine months" on approvals of new TV station applications...
...Chairman Coy had some soothing words for set owners. Whatever comes out of the conferences "will not affect present receivers at all." As for new buyers, if the prospective customer "is a fellow who always thinks there'll be a new model automobile coming up, I'd advise him not to buy. If he just wants to enjoy television, I'd say to go ahead...