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...author. Barry Sullivan was savagely efficient as the attorney for the defense, but far less convincing in the final scene when he lauds Queeg as a maligned patriot; Frank Lovejoy seemed too intelligent to play the duped Lieut. Maryk, and Robert Gist struggled manfully with the role of Lieut. Keefer, the devious intellectual...
...development in the Boston mayoralty campaign was the statement issued by the heads of the University, Tufts and Boston University Medical Schools defending Hynes' "vigorous program" at Boston City Hospital. The statement, released by Deans George P. Berry, and Joseph M. Hayman of Harvard and Tufts, and Chester A. Keefer, director of the B.U. Medical School, answered the recent attack on the hospital program by powers...
...there is more than artless optimism or patriotism beneath the surface of his stories. Wouk denies taking stands for or against anything, but the evidence of the books contradicts him. There is an indictment in The Caine Mutiny-not, ultimately, of Queeg, the maniacal martinet, but of Keefer, the phony intellectual. There is an indictment in Marjorie Morningstar-of Noel Airman, the restless Bohemian...
These characters are not indicted because they are intellectuals, but because they are irresponsible. What Wouk is saying, in effect, is that if everyone acted like Keefer, armies would fall apart, and wars would be lost. If everyone acted like Airman, marriages, families and society would crumble. These are platitudes, but they are the platitudes (as Wouk has Willie Keith say) of "growing...
Then the conference proposed (and Secretary Hobby and the President promptly approved) a national advisory committee on the vaccine, headed by Dr. Keefer. The committee will gather data from the states on their needs, then recommend allocations. Within each state there will have to be a similar committee to divide up the assigned quota, notably between charity and private use. There will be no rigid compulsory controls; compliance was hopefully left on a voluntary basis...