Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...current crack about Mr. Attlee by a master cracksman, see PEOPLE...
...first time since The Bomb burst, a great government cracked down on its talkative, uneasy atomic scientists. The government was Britain's; the crack-downers were Ernest Bevin and his temporary collaborator, Winston Churchill...
...Bolshevik anniversary, the Soviet press and radio played up three men: ¶ Viacheslav Molotov, 50, made the speech of the day (see above). Outside of Russia it is sometimes forgotten that Molotov's experience is not confined to foreign affairs; a crack administrator, he was Premier for eleven years until Stalin took the post over in 1941. The fact that Molotov's name followed just after Stalin on a recent official list of Soviet leaders was a sign that the Foreign Commissar might return to the Premiership. C| Marshal Alexander Vasilevsky, 48, Red Army Chief of Staff...
...from Peiping flew a bevy of crack Central Government troubleshooters. One of them was affable General Tu Liming, Chungking's military commander for the Northeast. Another was Russian-speaking Chiang Ching-kuo, Chiang Kai-shek's elder son, who has a Russian wife and used to be at odds with his father, but is now one of the National Government's up-&-coming younger men and the Foreign Affairs Commissioner for the Northeast. A third was liberal Chang Kia-ngau, a Shanghai banker and ex-Minister of Communications, who has become one of the Generalissimo...
DAYS AND NIGHTS-Konsfanfine Simonov-Simon &Schuster ($2.75). One of the most ubiquitous young writers of the Russian war was 30-year old Konstantine Simonov. A crack Soviet war correspondent who generally turned up in the thickest fighting from Odessa to Leningrad, Reporter Simonov is also a successful playwright, poet, short-story writer, novelist. Days and Nights, his novel of the 1942 defense of Stalingrad, is more effective than most contemporary Soviet fiction because the Communist drum-beating is more muffled...