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...object of all this billingsgate is a devoutly religious-and highly litigious-Quaker who has never been known to fire a shot, lift his fist, or even raise his soft voice in anger. Andrew Russell Pearson is a tall, tweedy, disarmingly mild-mannered fellow, with thinning light brown hair, a sparse mustache and earnest mien; he looks like a shy, quizzical cow college professor-except for his wary blue eyes. The mild manner camouflages a tough, diamond-hard core. And his casual clothes, his innocuously small-town look serve him well in Washington's lower echelons, where many...
...from Colorado has no more humor than a lawyer's shingle, but it has suspense and some exciting shots of fist fights and burning houses. All in all, it is a better than average horse opera...
When he speaks, he seems to be in agony of intensity. First his fist presses the table until he almost puts his entire weight on it; later his fingers grasp air with tenseness and tautness--early with violence. These mannerisms aren't superficial. They come out of a terrific absorption in ideas. They come out of an effort to express those ideas clearly, completely, and precisely. And Hartz is so successful in this effort that his audience laughs, not because what he says is funny, but because it is so perfectly right. The laughter comes form aesthetic satisfaction...
...some businessmen resent his interference, fear and respect prevent outcries. The sound of the name Dave Beck still touches the nerve centers of thousands with the impact of a fist on bone. But the great majority of employers think he is wonderful and applaud like happy seals when he speaks at the Chamber of Commerce...
...change the Communist fist into the open hand of simulated friendship, as rapidly as Moscow does it, requires not only political spryness but a kind of unabashed acceptance of duplicity and falsehood, so deeply ingrained that it becomes almost a reflex action, like breathing. In Paris last week the Communists, without visible embarrassment, were showing the fist and the open hand at the same time. Reason: the French satraps had been ordered to help along Moscow's new peace offensive, but their old orders to stir up trouble and sabotage EGA had not been canceled. TIME'S Paris...