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...helpers among top-drawer U.S. museum directors had no trouble picking 19th Century masters like Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, but debated back & forth over such contemporary choices as Morris Grave's scratchy watercolor called Little Known Bird of the Inner Eye and Man Ray's crisp Admiration of the Ochestrelle for the Cinematograph...
...remaining snag was the presence of British troops in Indonesia. To liquidate this problem, Clark Kerr shepherded The Netherlands' rotund Premier, Willem Schermerhorn, across the Channel for a chat with Clement Attlee. From the talks came quick results and a crisp communique: "An agreement was reached as regards the measures still necessary to liquidate the war with Japan and the gradual withdrawal of British troops and their replacement by Dutch forces...
There had never been anyone like her. Tall and lissome, she was an authentic pinup, talked crisp service slang, acted the way G.I.s wished all girls did. And she preferred enlisted men, called all her eager admirers "general" or "admiral...
...arrest of an M.P. was not the only dose of wormwood for Canadians. In a crisp, 4,000-word report, the Government ticked off the identities of four other persons accused of giving secrets to the Russians: 1) Dr. Raymond Boyer, a McGill University chemistry professor who had worked on a super-explosive known as "R.D.X."; 2) Harold Samuel Gerson, a scientist who worked for the Department of Munitions & Supply; 3) R.C.A.F. Squadron Leader Matt Simons Nightingale; 4) Dr. David Shugar, who worked on anti-submarine devices while in the Canadian Navy. Five other "detainees" were still to be identified...
...brothel (in which Anne-Charlotte is caught), and an unflagging succession of orgiastic parties at which the tobacco scions and their bibulous set try to drown their boredom. Out of these Freudian fandangos, Author Wilder has written a highly readable novel whose episodes are frequently breathless, whose dialogue is crisp, crackling and gamy. The total effect is like watching laboratory rats whirl around more & more madly in a botr tie exhausted of everything but oxygen. The prose paces the pathology...