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...first get-going months of the Eisenhower Administration. Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks resoundingly stubbed his toe by firing Dr. Allen V. Astin, 49, head of the National Bureau of Standards, in a row over Bureau tests of the battery additive AD-X2 (TIME, April 27). In the ensuing hullabaloo of scientific outrage and threatened resignations, Weeks reconsidered, decided to keep Astin for a few months, ostensibly while he looked for a permanent replacement...
Herter himself was cornered soon afterward by a group of prominent Bay State Republicans, including Joe Martin, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and Sinclair Weeks. For the good of the party, they said, he should run for the governorship of Massachusetts. Strangely enough, their proposition made Herter angry. "You're just trying to get me out of Washington," he cried. He strongly suspected Dwight Eisenhower wanted him to be Under Secretary of State, and he liked the idea. In the end, his conscience and the importunings of his son Chris Jr.* took him into the gubernatorial campaign...
Medallion Theater (Sat. 10 p.m., CBS-TV) is a potentially first-rate summer series that, so far, has had trouble getting off the ground. The first program was a painstaking, rather flat dramatization of an episode from Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith. Others have included The Man Who Liked Dickens, starring Claude Rains, a prettied-up version of Evelyn Waugh's story of a lost explorer held captive by an illiterate half-breed, and Mrs. Union Station, a farce starring June Havoc. The show may have better luck this week with Charles Ruggles in an adaptation of Richard Harding Davis...
...turned its first profit ($379,385) since 1943. In all, the U.S. has pumped about $27 million into the line, has taken a $13 million operating loss. Three Secretaries of Commerce (Henry Wallace, W. Averell Harriman and Charles Sawyer) who tried to sell the line failed. Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks succeeded by narrowing a field of 208 prospective bidders down to seven and then employing some vigorous salesmanship...
Last spring Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks abruptly dismissed Dr. Allen