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Career: Veteran career diplomat and topflight economist; joined Foreign Office in 1928, has served since in the U.S., Scandinavia, Africa, the U.N. and as delegate to numberless international conferences as expert on economics and North American affairs; Britain's Deputy Under Secretary of State since 1948; chairman of ten-man council on British atomic policy; Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George since 1949; accompanied both Attlee and Churchill on their recent trips to Washington, where he himself has served a total of five years...
...them were at work in New York City. ¶ In New York City, there were party cells in Columbia University, New York University and in four municipal colleges (City, Brooklyn, Hunter and Queens). ¶ Other party cells of three or more Communists operated at such topflight schools as Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Harvard, M.I.T., the Universities of Michigan, California and Minnesota...
...often called "Mathiasville," in honor of its No. i citizen. Last week, playing host to the U.S. decathlon championship contest for the second time, 5,000 Tulareans packed the stands of the local high-school stadium to watch Olympic Decathlon Champion Bob Mathias in action against 25 topflight U.S. athletes, all aiming for U.S. Olympic berths...
Unhappily, the picture soon digresses from lively realism to lagging melodramatics. Tyrone Power is a topflight U.S. diplomatic courier bound from Paris for Salzburg to pick up secret documents from another courier. To make sure that he is on schedule, Power wears two wrist watches. The picture also allows him two beautiful girls-a mink-coated American minx (Patricia Neal) and a blonde European charmer (Hildegarde Neff...
...musical world knows Amsterdam for its topflight Concertgebouw Orchestra; Amsterdammers' own musical affections center more mundanely on their pierementen, the oversized (10-ft.-high), richly painted barrel organs that trundle through the city streets from dawn to sundown. They furnish the common man's music: the oompah of his visions, the clanging of his troubles, the tra-la-la of his frolicking loves. Some notable feature of design or decoration gives them distinctive names: "Big Belly," "Buffalo," "Water Jug," "Rug Beater," "Cement Mixer" (for an oversized grinding wheel...