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...intense desire to be friendly and cooperative." Zhukov won the respect of almost all the Allied generals, but between himself and Eisenhower there was genuine affection. "That friendship was a personal and an individual thing," wrote Ike, who went with Zhukov to a football game at Moscow's Dynamo Stadium, and put his arm around Zhukov's shoulder as they took the wild cheers of 100,000 Russians. The two used to argue the relative merits of capitalism and Communism, and Ike never heard from Zhukov a despairing word about Communism. But of course they usually talked through...
...modern art. It was also paying warm tribute to the museum's scholarly director, Dr. Grace L. McCann Morley, 54. A woman who prefers tailored suits, sensible shoes, and wears her hair straight back in a bun, Director Morley, despite her retiring ways, has proved herself a dynamo in action. Her efforts have helped turn San Francisco into one of the nation's most enthusiastic strongholds of modern...
...family into a 1938 Ford station wagon and rattled off to Mexico. They lived in a shack in the jungle near Acapulco, and Sather came down with malaria. "But I have an attack only once a month," he says. "I'm so healthy, I'm a dynamo. I need only four hours' sleep a night." On their way back to Canada, the Sathers visited U.S. museums by day, camped in the fields when darkness fell. The trip took all their remaining funds. Until Sather found his new job, the going was rough...
Cohn, a chunky (5 ft. 8 in., 160 Ibs.), hazel-eyed dynamo type with deceptively sleepy eyelids, carefully slicked hair, is a man of extraordinary talents. Gifted with a sharp, retentive mind and a photographic memory, he also has the innate political cunning of the kingmaker. As Joe's committee counsel, he moves around the room at a dogtrot, speaks like a machine gun. He is relentless with witnesses, scornful of weaknesses, nerveless before criticism, and contemptuous of all Senators on the subcommittee save McCarthy. With good reason, Joe calls Roy Cohn "the most brilliant young fellow I have...
...thriving magazine-subscription service, wrote a column for the student paper Dynamo, and served as its poetry editor. He played a good game of chess, became his fraternity's chaplain, was a member of the Student Christian Association and the social-science honorary society, Pi Gamma Mu. Meanwhile, he majored in history and literature ("The record of humanity is in both"), and in his spare time turned out two volumes of poetry. But what amazed his professors most was his academic record...