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...critics in the weeklies did not present such a solid front. Life referred to J.B. as "a great play" and "a Broadway triumph." Newsweek found it "a burst of magnificent, enthralling theatre.... a newborn classic." Hobe Morrison, writing in Variety, the entertainment trade weekly, spoke of "this exalted drama" and lauded the performers, but hedged, "Whether the show is eloquent and inspiring, or just fairly impressive and remote obviously depends on the individual...
...Averell Harriman is the only candidate in history to arrive on the sidewalks of New York via a lifetime of private railroad cars, first-class steamships, private airplanes and chauffeur-driven limousines. He is worth some $40 million and owner of homes in Manhattan, Long Island, the Hudson Valley, Hobe Sound (Fla.), Sun Valley and Paris. But he is possessed with a patrician's best instinct for public service, decency and generosity. As adviser, errand boy and global troubleshooter for Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, he has always been selfless, tireless-and available. When he was sworn...
Eberstadt raced to Forrestal's home in Georgetown and found Forrestal mumbling: "I'm a disgrace to my friends. I have failed. The Department of Justice is going to indict me on Monday." Eberstadt whisked him to Hobe Sound, Fla. in an Air Force Constellation, where Bob Lovett took charge. "They're after me," Forrestal kept repeating. For a few days he swam and sunned himself and seemed to rally. Then one night he scratched his wrist with a razor blade. Psychiatrists ordered him to Bethesda Hospital and there, seven weeks later, he killed himself...
...partly responsible for needling the President into action, who had privately boasted: "I'll keep asking what our policy on China is until I find out." Yet, when the time for battle came, Louis Johnson was away: he had been traced to the swank Jupiter Island Club at Hobe Sound, Fla. the day before the long-awaited showdown of the armed services with Secretary of State Acheson...
...director of several banks, railroads and insurance companies. No stranger to Europe, he used to spend an average of two months a year there on business. When he left Washington and the War Department in December 1945, he returned to Wall Street. This week he was vacationing in Hobe Sound...