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...Dulles: "His eyes blinked intermittently like an electric bulb loose in its socket, and he made sucking motions with his mouth as if chewing thumbtacks." » Russia's Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko: "Bulbous nose, dolorous eyes, tight lips . . . like a punchinello whose feelings have been wounded." » Adlai Stevenson: "The round head of a plump, warmhearted, paternal grandpa ... a man who laughs easily while his eyes remain staring like a couple of Andromeda nebulae." » Neville Chamberlain: "The Secre tary Bird, which you may watch at the zoo walking back and forth on stiff legs with an expression...
...Kennedy did not really want to address the opening of the U.N. General Assembly's 18th session. The reason for his reluctance: he had nothing that he particularly wanted to say to the U.N., certainly no dramatic proposals to set before it. But advisers, from U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson on down, kept coaxing him with the argument: "Even if you have nothing to say, your appearance would count heavily." At last the President relented...
Basement Brooder. His aides began scrounging for "new ideas" to work into his speech. Stevenson brought down a sheaf of suggestions. The State Department produced a blizzard of memos. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. phoned Pundit Walter Lippmann to ask what the President might discuss. McGeorge Bundy brooded in the White House basement, jotting occasional thoughts on yellow legal paper. The final drafting was left mainly to Speechwriter Ted Sorensen, who was still scribbling away as he flew with Kennedy to Manhattan on the eve of the speech...
Dark & Charmed. Based on a novella by Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas' movie was commissioned in the late '40s by a subsidiary of the J. Arthur Rank organization. But Rank dissolved the subsidiary before the film could be produced, and the script vanished into the Rank bank. Richard Burton owns it now, in partnership with a New York producer, and sooner or later Burton intends to commit the story to film, with himself starring as an island trader named Wiltshire...
Trade Traders. That nugget never occurred to Robert Louis Stevenson, to whom Thomas was faithful in plot structure alone, replacing Stevenson's old salty seadog manner with a moody romanticism, but preserving Stevenson's gun-shooting, skeleton-rattling scary tale of fists, love and danger. His most interesting character is Case, the incarnate devil-"ironically attitudinizing, full of disgust and venom there in the fly-loud, flyblown, bottle-strewn bedded room." The part is intended at present for James Mason, but Burton would do well to trade traders with...