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Almost any night last week a small, trim man with a boxer's nose could be seen letting himself out of an office in the Pentagon Building and striding briskly down the corridor with a brief case heavy with homework. James Forrestal had served his country conscientiously for eight years-as an anonymous assistant to Franklin Roosevelt, as Secretary of the Navy, and finally as Secretary of National Defense. His face showed no expression but a kind of habitual pugnacity. In no way did he betray the fact that he had been marked as the victim...
Portland's reform mayor, trim, grey Mrs. Dorothy ("I will enforce the law") Lee, was getting unexpected support last week in her drive to clean up Portland. It came from no less a person than Mike Elliott, the beefy, tousle-headed new sheriff of Multnomah County, which surrounds Portland...
...third was "El Rancho," a convertible painted "in the singing thunder of a Mexican Dawn" (brown), and soon to be driven by Cadillac Boss John F. Gordon on his Arizona ranch. It has kip-side suede trim, antiqued silver hardware, steer-head escutcheons on the doorsills, and saddle-stitched pistol holsters on the doors. The fourth "sybaritic specimen" was a sedan in "Caribbean Day Break" (green), which would go to some other G.M. executive...
...Trim, coal-black Professor Z. K. Matthews (M.A., Yale), gave understatement for understatement. Said he: "This mentality from which we in this country suffer, under which we're always abolishing and not creating, always eliminating and not substituting, has a very bad psychological effect...
...bridge room of Shanghai's American Club, ECAdministrator Paul G. Hoffman, nine days out of Washington on a quick round-the-world trip, met some 35 foreign and Chinese correspondents last week. Trim and smiling in his double-breasted blue suit, Hoffman tried to be as responsive as possible. Sensibly, at the outset, he cautioned that he had no authority or qualifications to "determine or define" U.S. policy toward China. But, whatever his good intentions, the cautious, sensible-sounding words he then uttered were a kick in the teeth to the tottering Nationalist government and a boost, in effect...