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...Franklin Roosevelt's brain-trusters of the early New Deal had vanished from Harry Truman's Administration. Only David Lilienthal and James McCauley Landis remained in important jobs. Last week hawk-eyed Jim Landis, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board and one of the keenest legal eagles of them all, got his walking papers...
There Hu studied farming, switched to philosophy when told that he had to memorize the names of 300 varieties of apples. Later he took his doctor's degree at Columbia under John Dewey, who called Hu the keenest mind he had ever met on Morningside Heights. Hu dated a Chinese Vassar girl, but married the village girl to whom his family had engaged him in childhood. Ambassador Hu's wife, too shy and unconfident to come to the U.S., stayed behind in Peking. When the Japanese came, she rescued at great peril what she knew was most precious...
...details had been worked out in scores of conferences between Major General Lauris Norstad, one of the Army's keenest strategists, and Vice Admiral Forrest Sherman, an airborne sailor who has long been Fleet Admiral Nimitz' brain trust. Sitting in, when higher echelons were called for, were Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal and the Army's W. Stuart Symington, Assistant Secretary...
Well might Hermann Göring wince. Once head of Germany's biggest cartel, he had Naziism's keenest nose for sniffing out other people's profitable businesses, and its most carefree hand in grabbing them for his huge Hermann Göring Works. Now he had been surpassed. But Göring, like most Germans, had not yet heard of the new economic titan...
With three members of the Thirty Minute Club entered in the 155 pound Singles, Callanan predicted that this event should give the keenest competition in the meet. But after he had watched the spirited wherry races, Callanan said that if they were an indication of the spirit of the other events every race would be interesting...