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...Manhattan, Long Island, the Hudson Valley, Hobe Sound (Fla.), Sun Valley and Paris. But he is possessed with a patrician's best instinct for public service, decency and generosity. As adviser, errand boy and global troubleshooter for Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, he has always been selfless, tireless-and available. When he was sworn in for his present job as director of the Mutual Security Administration, Presidential Secretary Matt Connelly quipped: "Averell, isn't this the eighth time you've been sworn in? It's about time you learned to hold...
Much of Seoul's recovery is due to the tireless labors of U.S. Colonel Charles R. Munske, 54, a bluff, benevolent reservist from Brooklyn. As chief of the U.N. Civil Assistance Command for Seoul and the province of Kyonggi, Colonel Munske is nominally only an adviser to Seoul's U.S.-educated Mayor Kim Tai Sun. Actually, he works a minimum of twelve hours a day, seven days a week, coping with the city's problems. Seoul's rebuilding came to a dead stop recently when contractors ran out of nails. Munske begged and borrowed some wire...
...positions, U.N. observers probably have the better of it; with air supremacy over the battle lines, their plane crews have charted a growing maze of trenches, bunkers and caves, which now honeycomb almost every Red-held mountaintop and dominating ridge line. On some key peaks, the Reds, who are tireless diggers, have made perimeter entrenchments all the way around the slopes and have apparently built tunnels through from one side to another, in order to shift troops quickly and furnish impregnable shelter against allied bombs and heavy artillery. Bunkers with alternate layers of pine logs and earth, from...
...Nova Scotia's Dalhousie University in Halifax. When he arrived in Halifax, aged 22, he was almost broke and had to borrow $100 to tide him over until his first payday. One of his colleagues recalls: "He was a typical good young M.I.T. graduate-vital, clean-cut, tireless, very, very fit, and very, very pleasant." He was also a good teacher...
Cohn runs the Lab with octopus-like efficiency and inspires his helpers to work long hours by his own almost tireless example. He seems to exert direct control over almost all of the lab, including the design of pamphlet covers. Believing that scientific information should be released to scientists first, he refuses to give press interviews or allow members of his staff to be quoted on scientific matters...