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...Crisp and cool in a newly pressed spring suit, Dean Acheson faced his weekly press conference. He knew what was coming. The 130 reporters who crowded into the room last week had carefully studied two forthright speeches on China made by top State Department officials a few days before (TIME, May 28), and were ready with a barrage of questions. Assistant Secretary Dean Rusk had said that Chiang Kaishek, and not the Communists, was the authentic representative of China's millions; Rusk also hinted that the U.S. stood ready to help any revolt against China's "foreign masters...
Lorelei Lee is one tart that never seems to go stale. Her crust is as crisp in a Broadway musical today as it was in 1925, when Anita Loos composed her memoirs of a floozy, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Now Author Loos has tried the old recipe again...
...read from a prepared statement. A plain, almost schoolmasterish figure in spite of his crisp summer tans and combat ribbons, Omar Bradley, topflight battlefield general (in Europe he commanded more combat troops than any military man in U.S. history), was Witness No. 3 in the MacArthur hearing...
...some distinctive markings and characteristics. The finest specimens claim Missouri as their habitat, have at least a nodding acquaintance with Harry Truman, a much chummier relationship with his aides and advisers, and can buzz in & out of the White House at will. They also have a great fondness for crisp currency...
...came to the courtyard only to say "no," possibly influenced by a recent fiurry of anti-society essays in college publications. One junior sent a Skull and Bones tapper away with a crisp negative. He accepted the congratulations of two friends, telling them: "That was the toughest one to turn down...