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...Germans had not even been close in the atomic bomb race. Plump-faced Dr. S. A. Goudsmit, head of an American scientific intelligence mission to Germany, told an amazed Senate hearing last week that top German physicists had thought such weapons were "a hundred years away." Far from being on the verge of atom bombs as the war ended, they were still in the early experimental stage. But, with German arrogance, they had thought that the Allies were even further from success...
...under the surface, Shanghai is radically changed. The most important undercurrent now is almost universal uncertainty. The most fundamental change is in the city government. Foreign control by the taipans-businessmen-is no more. The old, British-dominated municipal council is gone. The mayor is plump, round-faced, impassive Chien Ta-chun, an old follower of the Generalissimo. Some 20 Chinese councilmen run the municipal departments, amid a plenitude of teacups, basins, hot towels and hot-water thermos jugs (the Chinese believe in working comfortably). You still see the picturesque bearded Sikh policemen directing traffic, but they will be repatriated...
...Plump, brilliant Geoffrey Crowther. editor of London's influential Economist, also edits Transatlantic on the side. Its purpose: to interpret Americans to Brit ons. In a recent issue of his monthly, Editor Crowther -appraised British and American attitudes toward each other in the dusk of Lend-Lease cancellation, Big Power troubles, hunger in Europe and plenty in America. What he had to say was still news last week in a U.S. playing host to Clement Attlee and negotiating a loan for Britain...
...conservative jury of museum directors gave $1,000 top honors to long-faced, Canadian-born Philip Guston, now an art instructor at St. Louis' Washington University. His Sentimental Moment is a sentimental study of a plump-armed, dreamy girl for which he used no model. "I simply had it in my mind and transferred it to canvas." Guston, who is 33, was a factory worker and a truck driver until WPA came along and gave him a full-time chance to work at art. Of his Sentimental Moment, the New York Times's ponderously judicious Edward Alden Jewell...
...cameras-one for overall pan shots, the other for intimate closeups. After laying out the racy boulevards and teeming suburbs of Paris (as seen by a financier in a hovering plane), Author Remains dives down to the corner of a little tearoom for a close-up of a plump Parisian mother fretting over her daughter's newly modish knee-high skirt...