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...when State absorbed some 3,000 employees of the OWI and the OSS. The loyalty program had not yet been instituted, and since then, Acheson insisted, State had done a good job of weeding out "misfits." Said Acheson: "We are satisfied-as far as anyone can be in this imperfect world-that we have a good, clean, loyal and honest outfit...
...about culture," trilled Authoress Ilka (Past Imperfect) Chase, 44, who blew into Portland, Ore. to tell dealers how to sell Cadillacs to women. "Of course," she told the press, one "can be very successful or proficient and still not be cultured...
...Navy brass went on rebelling after unification of the armed services, however imperfect, became fact. In the end, a group of their most ardent officers rashly strove to put the Navy above the dictates of the Government. Last week the inevitable crash occurred. President Harry Truman, acting with brutal directness, removed the service's highest-ranking officer, Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, as Chief of Naval Operations...
Lisa Fonssagrives was, in fact, an artfully posed, painstakingly lighted, lavishly printed image which bore about as much resemblance to an ordinary woman as Plato's "forms" to their imperfect earthly copies. Recently, Lisa Fonssagrives asked a photographer friend what he thought of her. "Lisa," he said, "you are just an illusion...
...Eliot record was first made in Cambridge two springs ago when the noted poet came to the College for a Morris Gray Readings on modern poetry, but the original record was found to be imperfect and Eliot made another recording recently at his London home for the Vocarium...