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This week, in a long cream and gilt room of London's century-old, bombscarred Lancaster House, just west of St. James's Palace, the foreign ministers of the world's five great powers meet to begin writing the peace terms of World...
...protocol was no more depressing than the furnishings. The meeting room itself with its round table was not so bad, but the twin angels on the backs of each of the Big Three's gilt chairs were hard to bear. So was the décor of Truman's living quarters. Items: liver-colored wallpaper in the living room; still lifes in the dining room-a very dead rabbit, a half cantaloupe and a very red lobster...
...final session, Stalin had a number of points to make. Bohlen translated. English and Russian buzzed easily around the table. At the finish, Harry Truman said he hoped the Big Three would meet next time in Washington. Stalin, between his gilt angels, agreed and smilingly added a qualification out of his seminary days. "God willing," said godless Uncle...
...champ chipped a bit of gilt off her successor's fame last week. Brenda Helser, one of Coach Jack Cody's Portland (Ore.) protégées, was the nation's swiftest woman sprint swimmer a year ago; then along came another West Coast mermaid, Ann Curtis (TIME, April 23), and snatched away her indoor and outdoor titles...
Time passes happily enough in the gilt and plush saloon of silky-smooth, steel-fisted, honest Tony the Angel (George Raft). His devoted, carrot-topped singer Sally (Vivian Blaine) warbles her way through a series of top-notch new musical numbers, sweetened with the soft-shoe rhythms and barbershop harmonies of the period. But even such authentic musical backdrops as Moonlight Bay and Shine On, Harvest Moon, tinkled on pianolas or wheezed through the gaping morning-glory horns of pristine phonographs, are powerless to give conviction or pathos to the story of loyal Sally's heartbreak or Angel Raft...