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...TIME'S Essay on the virtues of patience in America [March 25] with interest and concern. All too often is indecision, ignorance of a solution, or "letting the other guy do it" synonymous with patience. We have a plaque in the wardroom and on the bridge of U.S.S. Krishna with this inscription: "Impatience and sense of urgency tempered with realism can never lead to complacency." Impatience in today's world is a virtue, not a vice...
...glass of beer and a sudsy right at Merrick's head and sent him staggering into a backstage trash barrel. It is on such occasions, of course, that Merrick's critics up periscope and fire all tubes. He has been called "Typhoid David" and "Captain Hook" and "the Krishna Menon of Broadway." Director Tony Richardson says: "He's like a woman-sweet and bitchy at the same time." Anthony Quinn, who played in Merrick's Becket and Tchin-Tchin, recalls that when his vocal cords were so sore they were bleeding, Merrick snarled: "As long as you can talk...
...Roosevelt? At first, some Westerners gasped in dismay at Mrs. Gandhi's election. They remembered her as the darling of India's left-wingers,the friend of Firebrand Krishna Menon, and the Prime Minister's willful daughter who stamped her sandaled feet and threatened to report hecklers in her audience to her pitaji (daddy). At 48, Indira has largely outgrown that sort of thing. The left-wingers may still be enthusiastic about her, but she is better balanced. Menon seldom comes to call, and Indira keeps her temper reined...
...Indira went to England, studied history at Oxford, joined the British Labor Party, and fell under the influence of Krishna Menon, then an agitator in the Indian League's drive for independence. Poor health and the onset of World War II forced Indira to break off her studies and return home in 1941. She plunged at once into her country's increasingly bloody battle for independence. Showing some independence of her own, she defied her father and married an obscure Parsi lawyer named Feroze Gandhi (no kin to the Mahatma). Within a few months Feroze and his bride were both...
Nanda, he explained, was not considered for Prime Minister at the time of Nehru's death because Indian Congress Party members distrusted his close association with V.K. Krishna Mennon, but during Shastri's one-and-a half years in office, Nanda had grown closer to party leaders...