Word: experts
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...suspicion. Colgate Salsbury plays the crude, calculating husband with his usual energy, and a great deal of success. Although his Southern accent fluctuates enough to consider forgetting it entirely, rapid delivery expresses jarringly the hard personality which inhibits and crushes his wife. Like Miss Linch, Salsbury is expert at varying his pace; when serious, he is commanding, when humorous, shuffling and irresistably funny...
Stepping into one of the hottest spots in Washington is Eger (pronounced Eager) Vaughan Murphree, 57, an industrial research expert with little specific knowledge of missiles but an impressive record for getting results in engineering projects. No stranger to atomic weapons, Murphree was a World War II member of James B. Conant's scientific research and development committee, under which the Manhattan Project was launched to build the Abomb. Later Murphree supervised the design of a heavy-water plant in British Columbia and served as chairman of a group that helped develop centrifugal separation of uranium isotopes. Since World...
...President Eisenhower as chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board ($15,000, but likely to be boosted to $20,000 by legislation this year). Republican Durfee, almost certain to get Senate approval for the job, will succeed Ross Rizley, who has been appointed a federal judge in Oklahoma. No aviation expert but well-grounded in the legal complexities of transportation, Durfee started as an attorney in Antigo, Wis. in 1927, became a member of the Wisconsin PUC in 1951, chairman two years later. ¶ Sir Miles Thomas, 59, who resigned as chairman of British Overseas Airways Corp. (TIME, April 2), signed...
Furcolo, a Yale graduate, is a former Congressman and lost to Senator Leverett Saltonstall '14 in the 1954 campaign. At present he is seeking the Democratic nomination for Governor in this fall's elections. He is an expert in labor affairs and received a certificate in labor legislation from the Labor Management Center at Yale...
Alexander Gerschenkron has been appointed the first Walter S. Barker Professor of Economics, Dean Bundy announced yesterday. Gerschenkron, a member of the Faculty since 1948, is an expert on the economy of Soviet Russia...