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...point. Suntanned and rested after his 68-day holiday, he had long separate sessions with Bevin and Byrnes. Soon afterwards the conference developed an obvious feeling of buoyancy, previously missing. Once more, apparently, Stalin had proved himself the only Russian who can make quick decisions. But if the log jam had been broken, the drive was still a long way from smooth water...
Histrionic Patrick Jay Hurley got what he wanted: a chance to flail away at the State Department in the full spotlight of a Congressional hearing. A crowd jam-packed the big chamber. Ex-Ambassador Hurley had promised to pull no punches, to name names and dates and places, to expand his charges that career diplomats had done "an inside job" of sabotaging U.S. foreign policy, particularly in China (TIME...
...Also in residence at Claridge's is King Peter of Yugoslavia, registered as Mr. Peter Karageorgevich. He amuses himself with the recordings of Mr. Artie Shaw. The King has said that he considers Traffic Jam best...
...head) in London's Adelphi Theater last week were about the age of U.S. jitterbugs, but they wore starched white collars, sat quietly and attentively, trying to understand. Nobody romped in the aisles, though a few bold souls gently stomped their feet. The two-and-a-half-hour jam session was broken by a 15-minute intermission, so that the audience could have...
...brought jam to tea-drinking Englishmen is a 30-year-old R.A.F. musician named Sidney Gross. Before the war he was a night club guitarist who liked to play American style with a few friends after hours. Then he heard the Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw bands play for the R.A.F. "When most English players hear Americans, they are so depressed they want to put their instruments away," says Gross. Instead, he wanted to go and do likewise...