Word: tellers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many people think of a banker as a "jack of all trades?" To many of us, a banker is the teller who cashes our checks. To some of us who are more grugal, he is the savings teller who accepts our deposits and enters them in our passbooks. To others, he may be the bookkeeper who prepares the statements of our checking accounts and mails them to us. Each of these people plays an integral part in a bank. But the functions which they perform represent only a small part of the entire role which a bank plays...
...unpleasant over with first, it is enough to say that Jerard Hartman's comedy script is not funny. The idea, an unwary dupe being pushed into campaigning for clean politics, may not be entirely unsullied by past uses, but settling on a fortune teller's haunt as his headquarters does much to brighten the theme. Situation cannot substitute for wit unfortunately, and Hartman seems to have felt his duties over upon conception...
...female roles, Hugh Fortmiller as the fortune teller and Richard Waldron as her Dagmar daughter are by no means convincing but they are high-spirited, well attuned to the demanding deception, and add much to the show. James Gray as Bert, the newspaper managing editor, though unpadded, is another stand out. Stephen Addiss, William Newlin, and Gordon Martin range from excellent to a competency which isn't worth a quibble...
Married. Mrs. Hortense McQuarrie Odium, 62, onetime (1934-40) president of Manhattan's Bonwit Teller (women's fashions); and Angel Kouyoumdjisky, sixtyish, pre-World War II Bulgarian banker; she for the third time (her first: Floyd Odium, president of Atlas Corp.), he for the second; in Manhattan...
...that the bomb was in fact produced probably as fast as it could have been. Does this mean that the whole Washington struggle described by Shepley and Blair was nonexistent or irrelevant? Or that the Washington struggle was to decide whether to change the appropriate emphasis? Certainly. Oppenheimer, Teller and other participants in the Washington fight thought that they were engaged in making an important decision about the priorities at Los Alamos. Those on Oppenheimer's side did not take the position that greater concentration on thermonuclear work was impossible. They said-for a variety of reasons-that...