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...isolationist while president at Rochester, he sent scholarly messages to Congressmen opposing any change in the Neutrality Act, opposing Lend-Lease as the road to certain U.S. involvement in the conflict. In 1940, he headed the Democrats-for-Willkie group. He became a director of a number of topflight U.S. corporations, e.g., Freeport Sulphur Co., Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway Co., Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. In 1948, he served for a year as chief of the ECA mission to The Netherlands and was made a Grand Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau by Queen Juliana...
...local scale, a better than ordinary example of preparation was being carried on in a building on New York City's East 28th Street. There General Lucius Clay, U.S.A. (ret.), topflight military staff planner, the man who stubbornly steered Berlin through the Russian blockades, who was now chairman of the state's Civilian Defense Commission, earnestly turned his mind to the moment when the awful crisis might arrive...
...news of a topflight postwar Italian sculptor...
...root of all evil, says the Bible, is the love of money. The root of most evil, says Dr. Redcliffe Nathan Salaman, topflight British geneticist, is the potato...
...this left-wing fuzziness appears. Worsley, who is also drama critic and chief puzzle-master (under such pseudonyms as "Thomas Smallbones"), leans heavily on a few steadily brilliant contributors: Desmond Shawe-Taylor (music), Patrick Heron (art), G. W. Stonier, who also writes as "William Whitebait," (books, cinema) and topflight Book Critic V. S. Pritchett...