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Last week a crisp Australian who has done as much as any man living to subdue the influenza virus put the finishing touches on some experiments at the University of Wisconsin, then flew to California to check on virus research at Berkeley. Soon he will go back to his own laboratories in Melbourne. Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet came to the U.S. to receive a Lasker Award and to tell fellow virologists what he has found out Down Under...
Unencumbered by deals or embarrassing political debts, Dwight Eisenhower last week started picking his team to run the U.S. Government. He moved with sureness and crisp decision, filling two-thirds of the Cabinet posts faster than any other President-elect in U.S. history. All of his appointees were men with impressive records (see THE NEW ADMINISTRATION...
Technically, there is little to say in favor of this play. The dialogue, less clever than funny, is built around male lead Tom Ewell, a sort of poor man's Frank Faye who warms up in the second act and remains crisp from there on. But he is never an accomplished enough comedian to rise above the radiogag level of the script...
That night, back in Manhattan at the Herald Tribune Forum, Eisenhower returned to the Communist theme. In a crisp analysis of the recent Red Party congress in Moscow, Ike held that Russia was aiming especially at wrecking the free world.'s economy. "Annual handouts" to U.S. allies, he argued, are no long-range defense. He proposed a "new look" at the problem, in concert with U.S. allies and directed at "reviving free-world economies and trade as a whole...
...those who like crisp, musical perfection, Victor's Toscanini version is the last word. The NBC Symphony gives the music all the urgency it can bear, a sweeping flow and contrasting moments of intimacy hard to match. But the choral finale-one of the music's worst bugaboos -seems imperfectly recorded: the Robert Shaw Chorale clears the vocal hurdles all right, but the part singing is sometimes cloudy...