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...others: Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, Victor F. Weisskopf and Enrico Fermi...
...after a three-month battle, Jarman added another company to his shopping bag; for $27 million, he bought control of S. H. Kress & Co., a national chain of 342 variety stores. Genesco, which started as a shoe company and already has 1,500 outlets (including Manhattan's Bonwit Teller), nowadays is as flamboyant as its boss is unpretentious. A devout Baptist deacon, Jarman neither smokes, drinks nor cusses, often begins stockholders meetings with a prayer. He is noted for working his employees hard-and why not? How else will they ever acquire the 30 pairs of shoes that Maxey...
Above all, Director Ray is a teller of tales, a Bengali Balzac who envisions personal tragedy as a part of the human comedy, who can see the universal in the unique. He has created in the zamindar a character both peculiarly Indian and profoundly human, a man who would not face the truth and therefore had to face the consequences. As Actor Chhabi Biswas portrays him, the zamindar is a seething complex of contradictions: arrogant yet sensitive, pigheaded as well as lionhearted. He is a fool but there is something magnificent in his folly, and even at his most fatuous...
...Memphis, before he was gunned down by a neighbor suspicious of the colonel's intentions toward his wife. After he became "tired of a formal education" and quit school in the tenth grade, Bill decided to transform himself into a dandy; with the money he earned as a teller in his grandfather's bank, he bought a wardrobe of Styleplus clothes so dazzling that he became known locally as "The Count." For the rest of his life, recalls his brother, Bill dressed the part of a country squire with meticulous care, striding the streets of Oxford in trench...
...invitation to Teller raised angry protests that it was merely another device to embarrass the President. Conference Chairman Faubus, who had gone along with the invitation to begin with, changed his mind, rescinded the invitation. But Teller was already on the way. Messengers raced to intercept him at rail stations along the way. They missed him. But somehow, it seemed, Teller got the word. He never appeared in White Sulphur Springs and next morning was back in Washington. Teller explained vaguely that he had just gotten tired, decided to turn back, and left the train-just where, he could...