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...Dwight Eisenhower, became so angry at Radford that he refused to attend a J.C.S. meeting because Radford was present. But on his trip to Korea last December, Ike got a different impression of the Pacific Fleet Commander. At a dinner in Iwo Jima. Radford held Ike and his party spellbound with a brilliant review of Asian problems and their relation to world strategy. When Secretary Wilson recommended Radford to head the Joint Chiefs, the President approved...
...hand . . . on the other hand," a classic Greek construction, has been particularly useful in Finley's introductions of President Conant. Over the years, Finley has suggested that Conant has elements of Jonathan Edwards, the theologian, Robert Boyle the scientist, and Woodrow Wilson, the statesman. Conant admits he has sat spellbound at Eliot dinners "wondering who I'm going to be tonight...
...where the peasants have suffered harshly from the fighting of 1914-17. The lusty Surov boys bring home their weapons, declare a local soviet, cheerfully prod the village policeman to strip in public as a symbolic means of abdicating his authority; and to ten-year-old Mark Surov, gazing spellbound at the revolutionary bravado of his brothers, it all seems like a new world. From this point on, Soloviev charges through the nightmare of modern Russia at breakneck speed, tracing Mark Surov's career through the civil war in Moscow during the infancy of the revolution, and then...
...beat her." The show, said Mabley grimly, "was written and produced expressly for children and put on the air over the NBC network at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, so that it could catch all children ... It's frightening to see these five-and six-year-old tots sitting spellbound before TV sets, soaking up this sadism. It is the height of irresponsibility for a network to so callously disregard the well being of children...
...arrived, says a fellow student, as "a great lout of a fellow with a North Country accent, who couldn't find his hat because he was sitting on it." But when Laughton began to recite, he ceased to be a figure of fun: he held the room spellbound. For his portrayal of Higgins in Shaw's Pygmalion, he won the academy's highest award. Shaw dropped in on one rehearsal and commented: "Young man, you were horrible as my Higgins, but nothing will stop you from getting to the top of the tree in a year...