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...exercised absolute dictatorial powers over men and materials in its $2 billion wartime research program, developing radar, antiradar, various new chemical warfare wrinkles-and nuclear fission. Conant's job was as an organizer, moderator and catalyst, but he would have failed if he had not been a topnotch scientist...
Fanciers of Wedgwood and Spode (or cheap imitations) stared coldly at the clean, uninhibited lines, the unadorned and self-sufficient surfaces of modern dinnerware by such topnotch U.S. designers as Eva Zeisel (Castleton China) and show-stopper Florence Forst. But to many Everyday Gallery visitors, one of the show's designers was an old table and dishpan friend: Russel Wright, who has thrown pottery makers-always a conservative lot-into a dither with the massive success of his American Modern dinnerware since...
Bevin turned out to be a much better boss than musty old Whitehall had hoped. He knew much more about Whitehall's business than it had expected. By & large, he left the coterie of career diplomats alone. Bevin is still short of topnotch diplomatic personnel. His star ambassador is Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, recently recalled from Moscow where, the Foreign Office felt, he was being wasted...
...with more bounce than craftsmanship. The first act-with its picture of the home life of a baboon and his blonde-is delightful. After that, plot starts muscling in on character, and the show has its ups & downs. But things are kept moving by enough good gags and two topnotch performances. Radio Sports Announcer Paul Douglas makes a solid character-tough, vicious, yet somehow comic-of Harry Brock. Judy Holliday (Kiss Them for Me), with her flat voice, slow takes and floozie walk, is often wonderful as the blonde. When she sorts her cards in a gin-rummy game, Broadway...
...would be glad to get back-as a man who dearly loves Britain, he often says regretfully that he has "slept few nights at home in the last ten years." When he leaves, the U.S. will get another topnotch diplomat in his place. Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr,* polished, informal veteran of a dozen capitals on four continents, will come to Washington as soon as he winds up the peacemaking mission he has been assigned in Java...