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...Seven-Job Anna." As New York regional director of the War Manpower Commission in World War II, she evolved "the Buffalo Plan," juggling manpower on the basis of priorities, which was copied across the U.S. An ardent supporter of Fiorello La Guardia, and like him, volatile, unpredictable and tireless, she can be coy as Bo-Peep or brassy as Sergeant Quirt. Running her own labor-and public-relations business on the side, Mrs. Rosenberg (whose husband, Julius Rosenberg, is a Manhattan rug dealer) earned up to $60,000 a year for advising such clients as R. H. Macy...
...lead women out of the kitchen and into the atomic age" was the avowed purpose of the organization. "Not to know all about atomic energy and the wonderful things it can do," explained motherly, tireless Founder Muriel Howorth, "is like living in the Dark Ages." Last week in Aldwych's Waldorf Hotel, Mrs. Howorth's high-minded Atomic Energy Association of Great Britain (membership: 300) celebrated its second anniversary with an atomic pantomime called Isotopia...
...collection, wrote Walker, reflects "his personality. Gladstone enumerated six qualities which distinguish a collector: 'Appetite, leisure, wealth, knowledge, discrimination, and perseverance.' These qualities Mr. Gulbenkian possesses to a pre-eminent degree. [Fellow financiers] would be surprised to hear him comparing their business dealings to . . . Italian paintings! With tireless patience he has sought beautiful objects; pictures, sculpture, ancient coins, Near Eastern ceramics, manuscripts, eighteenth-century furniture, tapestries...
...once immaculate parking place was covered with fox holes and the pup tents of the marines, who were heating their morning rations over small wood fires. There was only one link left with the past. In one corner of the lot, gutted and tireless, its once shiny hood and fenders burned a dull red, was the Buick. It still bore its diplomatic license plate: CDA 253. Evidently the Communists weren't able to start it, either...
...tactical surprise achieved by the enemy when he attacked; the second was the high quality of his army. The sinewy, spring-legged little men of North Korea had good equipment and they knew how to use it. They handled their hard-hitting, Russian-made tanks well; they were smart, tireless infantrymen and they were close to wonderful with mortars and artillery. At one stage of the battle a U.S. soldier observed bitterly that they could drop a mortar shell "in your hip pocket...