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...Sallow, pasty-faced Chemist Harry Gold of Philadelphia had lost 50 lbs. since the FBI jailed him last summer. The man who was spy Klaus Fuchs's go-between in passing top U.S. atomic secrets to Russia had improved his hours in jail by dieting. With the shrunken look of an underprivileged cat, he slipped into the witness chair of a Manhattan federal courtroom one morning last week to testify against two of his old cronies. They were Chemical Engineer Abe Brothman, 36, and Brothman's assistant, spirited Miriam Moskowitz, 34, both accused of obstructing the U.S. Government...
...compartment in Harry Truman's mind that has politics written on it was still clicking away, in the midst of other decisions. F.D.R.'s sallow, fast-talking son Jimmy visited the White House (see PEOPLE) to talk over his campaign for the California governorship, and bury the hatchet. He got the President's blessing ("Keep pitching...
Usually at banquets, he talked earnestly with his neighbor and apparent close friend, bald, pince-nezed Lavrenty Beria, boss of the Soviet police. Obese, agate-eyed, sallow and waxy-faced, Malenkov exuded a vague menace. "If I knew I had to be tortured," said a former Western envoy to Moscow last week, "and if I were picking people from the Politburo to do the torturing, the last one I would pick would be Malenkov...
Wrote one Louisville critic: "It opens an entirely new field for the contemporary dancer . . . and places him on a commercial and artistic footing with the piano, instrumental and vocal soloist." To sallow, dark-eyed Dancer Graham, it was "a great challenge . . . This must be a special work with a full symphony. It can't be reduced to anything I can take on tour. But other symphony orchestras may be interested...
...University of Illinois' College of Medicine in Chicago this week, a gaunt, sallow-faced man, a sufferer from cancer of the throat, stepped into a basement room furnished only with an improvised table, a mirror and an awesome machine. Technicians arranged the cancer victim on the table while Dr. Roger A. Harvey peered through the strange machine's ring sights (like those on an aircraft machine gun) at the patient's neck. When the apparatus was aimed just right, the technicians left the room...