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...piece of statesmanship it offended at once the proponents of the more forthright B2H2 Resolution (TIME, March 22). Beside it the mild "Mackinac Charter," adopted by the Republicans a month ago, seemed now monumentally grand. Minor Statesman Connally explained feebly: "The best possible . . . that could be secured. Unity and harmony are vital if the Senate is to pass a resolution by a substantial majority...
...fate of most symbols-sworn by and sworn at. But Tom Girdler's autobiography, told with professional Saturday Evening Post briskness, is more than the story of steel-more than another Horatio Alger success story. Certain to give laborites the fits, the book is also a belligerently forthright portrait of a notoriously belligerent individual ("My friends tell me that when I get mad my head seems to swell and my eyes to stick out") who has been a central figure in some of the most turbulent episodes in modern U.S. industrial history...
...England's best newsmen; forthright William John Haley, joint managing director of the Manchester Guardian and Evening News, and a director of Reuters, top British news agency...
...forthright, energetic, middle-aged lady and she was more exciting than anything the antipodes had seen in many a down-under moon. Eleanor Roosevelt, the first lady of the U.S., leaving New Zealand breathless and charmed by her energetic gusto, flew on to Australia...
...Armored Forces was organized in 1941, Sergeant Krim was one of the few men who knew much about a branch in which the money-shy U.S. Army had long been weak. He became an instructor. After many months somebody discovered that George Krim deserved more from the Army. Result: forthright promotion to a captaincy, with more rank on the way. Colonel Krim's present assignment: secret tests of tanks...