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...nearly four weeks, an embarrassed Sprague wrote the President: "Unless I hear from you, I will proceed on the assumption that my name will not be sent . . ." He would stay around two more days, he wrote, then pack up and go home. Two days later, toward evening, Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams telephoned. The President and G.O.P. leaders in the Senate had discussed the problem at breakfast that morning. Their decision: under the circumstances, it would be "imprudent" to ask the Senate Armed Services Committee to confirm Stockholder Sprague...
...Government to encourage Big Business is to let it alone. Lilienthal takes a different tack. He proposes that Congress pass a Basic Economic Act pro claiming its prime concern with "productivity and the ethical and economic distribution of this productivity." Lilienthal's law would automatically repeal "the Sherman and Clayton acts, and all other existing laws, administrative policies and judicial interpretations of the antitrust laws" insofar as they were inconsistent with the Basic Economic Act. Under its terms, "the legal test Bigness would have to face would thenceforth be whether the particular aspect of size challenged by the Government...
Cigarettes and chitchat, it was agreed at a White House staff conference, can spoil the efficiency of any office. Out went the word to the 49 typists, stenographers, receptionists, filing clerks, etc. under the over-all eye of Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams: no smoke & gossip sessions when on the job in the White House...
...with the Navy, a lieutenant commander on minesweepers and destroyers in the Pacific. He has had three postwar terms as a Republican Congressman, is an outspoken internationalist, led the pro-Eisenhower forces in Kentucky, was recommended for State by his good friend, Kentucky's new Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper...
...slumps. There are such pleasant-enough Vernon Duke tunes as It Just Occurred to Me —though it could have occurred to a good many composers. There are a number of skits with promising ideas, but few that are even reasonably funny. Dave Burns is an enjoyable comic, and Hiram Sherman-even without good material-an ingratiating commentator. Most notably, Jerome Robbins has worked out some attractive dances and ballets, and Ballerina Nora Kaye contributes some attractive dancing. But somehow all these names don't add up to very much news...