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...balance France's scandalously unbalanced budget, the Chamber of Deputies warily received last week the new Cabinet of that sleek, nine-lived gourmet, Premier Albert Sarraut (TIME, Nov. 6). Impeccable in a frock-coat freshly pressed as usual, M. Sarraut serenely mounted the tribune, adjusted his gleaming pince-nez and read in a murmur a declaration of policy so carefully prolix and nebulous that it lulled and stupefied all opposition-as smart M. Sarraut intended. The Chamber will be left to face of itself the necessity of balancing the budget, Premier Sarraut indicated. When he asked a vote...
Composer Deems Taylor conducted some of his own music, managing his pince-nez with one hand, his baton with the other. Efrem Zimbalist fiddled. Then Kate Smith sang the big siren song from Samson & Delilah while Stokowski, a bit unnerved, conducted...
...chameleon is put on a crazy quilt, it becomes fatally confused. On the U. S. crazy-quilt, most smart writers stick safely to their native patches, or seek like colors. Not so 39-year-old Thames (pronounced not Tems but as it is spelled) Ross Williamson. Born on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation in Idaho, son of a Welsh-Norwegian father, a French-Irish mother, his mixed inheritance has well prepared him for the kaleidoscopic environment from which he is emerging as an able guide to the patchwork of the U. S. scene. At 14 he ran away from home...
...Washingtonians expected great things from him. But in four months he has proved himself a shrewd and aggressive naval chief who runs the department instead of letting the admirals run it. A good mixer, he has known most of them by their first names for years. His pince-nez slide down his long snipe nose. He wears coats two sizes too big. His felt hat is generally cocked at a raffish angle. For weekends he goes off on a destroyer to sniff salt air or visits the Hoover camp on the Rapidan, now in charge of marines. In his office...
...able public speaker, he dislikes society and ceremony but has had to get used to them in his present job. Tall, long of face and nose, at 65 he is slightly stooped and his grey hair is thinning. His brown eyes twinkle benignly through horn-rimmed pince-nez swung from a black silk ribbon. He picks his suits carefully and well, wears them neatly pressed and with ties more harmonious than Brother Charley...