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...raising his voice or even his eyebrows." Said an associate, Physicist Norris Bradbury of Los Alamos: "I never saw him mad." President Quarles walked to work at the base so early that a resident who had never met the boss snorted: "I wonder who he's trying to impress?" Two years ago, taking his $10,000-a-year irrevocable pension from Western Electric, he quit to become Assistant Secretary of Defense in charge of research and development, i.e., the Pentagon's scientific boss...
...Cobweb (MGM) shows how a well-run psychiatric clinic turns into a bedlam simply because good, greying Dr. Richard Widmark is indifferent to his pouting wife, Gloria Grahame. The fireworks start over a set of new draperies for the patients library. Gloria, embarked on a rare good deed to impress her husband, decides to buy some expensive new ones. This upsets crotchety Lillian Gish, business manager of the clinic, who has her irascible eye fixed on some bargain cotton. Even worse, the clinic therapist, Lauren Bacall, has already promised Problem-Patient John Kerr that he can design the new draperies...
...Italy's monopolistic Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (E.N.I.), the state-owned oil company that has consistently fought private international development of Italy's oil resources (TIME, Nov. 29). Italy-had offered to be host to the congress, and the oilmen had accepted. The 3,200 delegates hoped to impress E.N.I. and its Boss Enrico Mattel with the power and efficiency of private oilmen, thus persuade E.N.I, to be more cooperative...
...recalled, went: "Of all Americans, Miss Keller is the least blind and deaf." Miss Keller replied: "That is not what he actually said. It was at a meeting with G. B. Shaw when Lady Astor introduced me as the great blind and deaf social worker. She kept trying to impress the testy Shaw and make him take more notice of me. He was goaded into saying, 'All Americans are blind, deaf and dumb.' " As the listening newsmen politely registered indignation, Social Worker Keller sixth-sensed their reaction, graciously exonerated Shaw: "I do not hold it against...
Best of all are the sympathetic insights into the personal problems of a reasonably steady, square-shooting, white-collar criminal (Lee Marvin). The night before the big job the poor fellow cannot sleep. Of course he is afraid, but he is also anxious to impress the boss (Stephen McNally) and get ahead in the underworld. He paces the floor in his hotel room until all hours, sniffing wretchedly at his "Benny" inhaler. This reminds him of a former wife, a party named Parmalee. Few marriages can have suffered so implacable a description as he gives that one, in seven well...