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JOHN ADKINS LEW SPENCE Tucson, Ariz...
Ernie Explodes. One day last week, U.S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas called on Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin; what he had to say was brutally simple. President Harry Truman had recognized the State of Israel (that neither George Marshall nor Lew Douglas himself was particularly happy about their boss's sudden step was another matter). Now the U.S. expected from Britain, if not Israel's recognition, at least a stoppage of aid to the Arabs. Lew Douglas added that, unless the British complied, Marshall Plan allocations to Britain might run into trouble in Congress...
Dogged Line. The speeches written for him by smart, genial young Lew Frank Jr., a onetime New Republic staffer, cleaved more & more shamelessly to the Communist line. He delivered them doggedly, chin buried between his shoulders, his mouth turned down at the corners. He attacked the "oil trusts," the U.S. policy of "intimidation"; he charged: "We are guilty of almost every charge we level at the Russians." At Iowa City he demanded a meeting between the next President and Stalin, adding: "Roosevelt always said he could do business with Stalin. That's what he often told me personally...
...episodes often mediocre. The plot centers upon Peter (his surname never appears) and his two fellow-careerist apartment-mates n Manhattan. Ted lost his arm overseas; shorn of idealism and faith, overwhelmed with wealth that is the one ingredient he needs least for happiness, he ultimately ends his life. Lew Cole has changed his Jewish name for the sake of armament in the competitive world of radio. Peter himself fights the false enticements of The Newsmagazine where he sells his soul for handsome office trappings and scampering office boys. Through the lives of these three and the circle around them...
...last week the new plant, with a production capacity of 22,500 dozen pieces a day (11% greater than the old), was ready to open, 64 days from the time Lew Reese made his "two months" boast. One morning at 7 a.m., the opening whistle blew. The erstwhile construction hands went back to their pottery jiggers exactly 15 years from the day when Reese first reopened the abandoned plant...