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...converting low-grade bauxite into alumina (which is in turn smelted down to aluminum). This had blocked SPA's deal to lease the Hurricane Creek plant (which operates on low-grade bauxite) and Jones Mills aluminum plant to the Reynolds Metals Co. (TIME, Dec. 31). Alcoa's frail, grey-haired vice president, I. W. Wilson, had indignantly denied the charges. He did not stop there...
...Tiny, frail, Iranian Ambassador Hussein Ala had successfully pleaded with State Secretary James F. Byrnes for immediate U.S. action to protect Iran's sovereignty...
...direct lineal descendant of one of Hollywood's biggest breadwinners during the '20s: the Harold Lloyd comedies of confusion. Eddie Bracken, in a pretty good modern imitation of the Lloyd hurlyburly, teeters precariously on the ledge of a skyscraper, wrestles with a drunk at the frail end of a flagpole and is chased through a maze of hotel corridors by a sinister set of hoodlums...
...That frail repository of hope, the United Nations Organization, had faded into the background while worry over the atomic bomb mounted...
Vlaminck, Derain, Segonzac and Despiau were not exhibiting. They belonged to the Groupe du voyage à Berlin (the group that traveled to Berlin). Conspicuously absent non-collaborators were Dufy (frail but still painting in Perignan) and Rouault (secluded in Brittany...