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...Worth ever passed around copies of a mysterious nine-page document, which summed up the rumor-ridden case against the B-36? Yes, Worth admitted frankly, he had "Where did you get this document from?" Vinson demanded. Replied Worth in a crisp, calm voice: "I wrote it." Three wire-service reporters dashed for the door...
...Meeting. Handa engineered a meeting with the founder of the new religion, moonfaced Zenjiro Nagumo, a sleek, smooth-tongued evangelist who spiced his exhortations with crisp English phrases, Mohammedan aphorisms and quotations from the Buddhist sutras. "Here," said Handa breathlessly, "is a man after my own heart. He has faith...
...crisp moviemaking that follows is the work of Producer Anthony (Quartet) Darnborough and Director Terence Fisher. Taking a loosely knit story, they have tightened it stitch by stitch with skillful timing, intelligent camera work and imaginative sound effects to produce a superior suspense film. Most suspenseful sequence: the SS general slowly stalking a victim in a twilight forest while the sound track listens with hair-raising patience to the chirp of crickets, a night bird, and the final telltale crack of a breaking twig...
Under Johnson and Bradley, a new team of top defense officials this week went to work. To succeed Bradley as Army Chief of Staff, the President named hardy, crisp-spoken 53-year-old General J. Lawton ("Lightning Joe") Collins, whose string of World War II campaigns stretched from Guadalcanal to the Rhine...
...wages and pensions before Harry Truman's steel fact-finding board. In Manhattan's federal court house last week, it was management's turn. Up before the three-man board stood Inland Steel Co.'s tall, square-jawed President Clarence B. Randall. In crisp words he made the steelmen's case against the theory of wage-fixing by government. Said...